diff --git a/share/man/man7/release.7 b/share/man/man7/release.7
index 6acfa72a9934..f5c7b0ea95a8 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/release.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/release.7
@@ -478,6 +478,6 @@ branches can fail.
 To work around this, release builds can be made to checkout the
 documentation from the last fully supported release of FreeBSD.
 For example:
-.Bd
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
 make release RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5 DOCRELEASETAG=RELEASE_4_5_0 ...
 .Ed