1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 228d3fa1..6f31f365 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -200,9 +200,8 @@
                                                 operation. Higher-level errors (such as name resolution errors,
                                                 socket timeouts, etc) are outside of the control of plugins and should
                                                 generally NOT be reported as UNKNOWN states.
-                                                </para>
-                                                <para>The --help or --version output should also result in Unknown state.</para>
-                                                </entry>
+                                                </para><para>The --help or --version output should also result in Unknown state.
+                                                </para></entry>
                                         </row>
                                 </tbody>
                         </tgroup>
@@ -613,7 +612,7 @@
                 The user should be allowed to specify -v multiple times to increase
                 the verbosity level, as described in <xref linkend="verboselevels">.</para>
 
-                The exit code for version information or help should be UNKNOWN
+                <para>The exit code for version information or help should be UNKNOWN
                 (3).</para>
     </section>