diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
index 6d9b06bf86..57a21fc4aa 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ exit 0
       <filename>crontab</filename> files store information about specific
       functions which <command>cron</command> is supposed to perform at
       certain times.</para>
-      
+
     <para>The <command>cron</command> utility uses two different
       types of configuration files, the system crontab and user crontabs. The
       only difference between these two formats is the sixth field.  In the
@@ -450,16 +450,17 @@ exit 0
       as any user. In a user crontab, the sixth field is the command to run,
       and all commands run as the user who created the crontab; this is an
       important security feature.</para>
-    
+
     <note>
       <para>User crontabs allow individual users to schedule tasks without the 
         need for root privileges. Commands in a user's crontab run with the 
         permissions of the user who owns the crontab.</para>
-      <para>The root user can have a user crontab just like
+
+      <para>The <username>root</username> user can have a user crontab just like
         any other user. This one is different from
         <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> (the system crontab). Because of the
         system crontab, there's usually no need to create a user crontab
-        for root.</para>
+        for <username>root</username>.</para>
     </note>
 
     <para>Let us take a look at the <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> file