diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 0c88fead8b140d93ca0f0719f9c5fa7d181ab397..5174a659379a4877e039b33754f08c4938a2f063 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -626,7 +626,9 @@ authentication.
 For example the following types of authentication support this:
 
 http://user:password@www.example.com
+
 ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com
+
 pop3://user:password@mail.example.com
 
 The port is optional and when not specified libcurl will use the default port