diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index 2227f2159..f83326cbc 100644
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -303,12 +303,16 @@ nor
 is specified, then
 .I mode
 is ignored.
+.IP
 The effective mode is modified by the process's
 .I umask
 in the usual way: in the absence of a default ACL, the mode of the
 created file is
 .IR "(mode\ &\ ~umask)" .
-Note that this mode applies only to future accesses of the
+.IP
+Note that
+.I mode
+applies only to future accesses of the
 newly created file; the
 .BR open ()
 call that creates a read-only file may well return a read/write