diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 459771519..eb44295d4 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -936,9 +936,9 @@ Set HTTP proxy to use. The parameter should be a char * to a zero terminated
 string holding the host name or dotted IP address. To specify port number in
 this string, append :[port] to the end of the host name. The proxy string may
 be prefixed with [protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored. The
-proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option. If
-not specified, libcurl will default to using port 1080 for proxies.
-\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP.
+proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option
+\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP. If not specified, libcurl will default to using port
+1080 for proxies.
 
 When you tell the library to use a HTTP proxy, libcurl will transparently
 convert operations to HTTP even if you specify an FTP URL etc. This may have