diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index 6c6255b56e..118b6c1056 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -4941,12 +4941,12 @@ ${PREFIX}/man/ja/man4/baz.4.gz</programlisting>
 	  <filename>pkg-plist</filename>.</para>
 
 	<para>For instance, if you have a port that installs many files in a
-	  version-specific subdirectory, you can put something like
+	  version-specific subdirectory, you can put something like</para>
 
-	  <programlisting>OCTAVE_VERSION= 2.0.13
+	<programlisting>OCTAVE_VERSION= 2.0.13
 PLIST_SUB=      OCTAVE_VERSION=${OCTAVE_VERSION}</programlisting>
 
-	  in the <filename>Makefile</filename> and use
+	<para>in the <filename>Makefile</filename> and use
 	  <literal>%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%</literal> wherever the version shows up
 	  in <filename>pkg-plist</filename>.  That way, when you upgrade the port,
 	  you will not have to change dozens (or in some cases, hundreds) of