diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 02a28d0aa65c..f6579cac0e36 100644
--- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.23 2002/09/30 10:39:22 grant Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.24 2002/09/30 10:41:54 grant Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -124,8 +124,11 @@ The field may be numeric, or a name which is present in
 .Pa /etc/passwd
 or
 .Pa /etc/group .
-For backward compatibility, "." is useable in lieu of ":", however use of
-this feature is discouraged.
+For backward compatibility,
+.Dq \&\.
+is useable in lieu of
+.Dq \&: ,
+however use of this feature is discouraged.
 .It Ar mode
 Specify the mode of the log file and archives.
 .It Ar ngen
@@ -336,8 +339,9 @@ If this field is present, a signal of type
 .Ar sigtype
 is sent the process id contained in this
 file.
-This field must start with "/" in order to be recognized
-properly.
+This field must start with
+.Sq /
+in order to be recognized properly.
 .It Ar sigtype
 This optional field specifies the type of signal to be sent to the daemon
 process.