diff --git a/usr.bin/column/column.1 b/usr.bin/column/column.1
index 39d93c6ed0a7..a3c9ff15cbdc 100644
--- a/usr.bin/column/column.1
+++ b/usr.bin/column/column.1
@@ -100,4 +100,6 @@ The
 command appeared in
 .Bx 4.3 Reno .
 .Sh BUGS
-Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
+Input lines are limited to
+.Dv LINE_MAX
+(2048) bytes in length.
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
index 346e976ca385..e8a640cfa170 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1
@@ -920,5 +920,5 @@ The
 and
 .Ic -maxdepth
 primaries are actually global options (as documented above).
-They should 
+They should
 probably be replaced by options which look like options.
diff --git a/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 b/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1
index fb9eb7762d8e..7bdad3a0a357 100644
--- a/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1
+++ b/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ characters, which are represented as C escapes:
 .El
 .Pp
 Multi-byte characters are displayed in the area corresponding to the first
-byte of the character. The remaining bytes are shown as
+byte of the character.
+The remaining bytes are shown as
 .Ql ** .
 .It Xo
 .Sm off
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index 6b41a9d56803..d616fcd91b94 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ In addition,
 .Nm
 sets or knows about the following internal variables or environment
 variables:
-.Bl -tag -width ".Va MAKEFILE_LIST"
+.Bl -tag -width ".Va .MAKEFILE_LIST"
 .It Va \&$
 A single dollar sign
 .Ql \&$ ,
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ executes; compare with the
 .Ic .MAKEFLAGS
 special target below.
 .It Va MFLAGS
-is provided for backward compatibility and
+This variable is provided for backward compatibility and
 contains all the options from the
 .Ev MAKEFLAGS
 environment variable plus any options specified on
@@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ For loops are expanded before tests, so a fragment such as:
 won't work, and should be rewritten as:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 \&.for ARCH in ${SHARED_ARCHS}
-\&.if ${MACHINE} == ${ARCH} 
+\&.if ${MACHINE} == ${ARCH}
      ...
 \&.endif
 \&.endfor
diff --git a/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.1 b/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.1
index 02d3851ee2d6..61c44e04c3e7 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ncal/ncal.1
@@ -132,5 +132,5 @@ The
 command and manual were written by
 .An Wolfgang Helbig Aq helbig@FreeBSD.org .
 .Sh BUGS
-The assignment of Julian\(EmGregorian switching dates to
+The assignment of Julian\(emGregorian switching dates to
 country codes is historically naive for many countries.
diff --git a/usr.bin/nl/nl.1 b/usr.bin/nl/nl.1
index be7fbe1697dc..8ea7705ea5ef 100644
--- a/usr.bin/nl/nl.1
+++ b/usr.bin/nl/nl.1
@@ -225,9 +225,7 @@ is 6.
 .El
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
 The
-.Ev LANG,
-.Ev LC_ALL,
-.Ev LC_CTYPE
+.Ev LANG , LC_ALL , LC_CTYPE
 and
 .Ev LC_COLLATE
 environment variables affect the execution of
diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
index 8e8ef029dbde..5a22b9fd405f 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
@@ -531,8 +531,7 @@ utility is expected to be a superset of the
 specification.
 .Pp
 The
-.Fl E ,
-.Fl a
+.Fl E , a
 and
 .Fl i
 options are non-standard
@@ -549,9 +548,8 @@ appeared in
 .An "Diomidis D. Spinellis" Aq dds@FreeBSD.org
 .Sh BUGS
 Multibyte characters containing a byte with value 0x5C
-.No ( Ns
-.Tn ASCII
-.Ql \e Ns )
+.Tn ( ASCII
+.Ql \e )
 may be incorrectly treated as line continuation characters in arguments to the
 .Dq a ,
 .Dq c
diff --git a/usr.bin/sockstat/sockstat.1 b/usr.bin/sockstat/sockstat.1
index 9136420e301e..9d3a83e373a2 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sockstat/sockstat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sockstat/sockstat.1
@@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ Note that TCP sockets in the
 or
 .Dv AF_INET6
 domains that are not in one of the
-.Dv LISTEN ,
-.Dv SYN_SENT ,
+.Dv LISTEN , SYN_SENT ,
 or
 .Dv ESTABLISHED
 states may not be shown by
diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
index 0656a5e715ae..e9369d5b5596 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of
 characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters''.
 The implementation, however, didn't handle non-printing characters
 correctly so that
-.Dq "  ^D^E  "
-counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
+.Dq Li "  ^D^E  "
+counted as 6 spaces, while
+.Dq Li foo^D^Ebar
 counted as 8 characters.
 .Bx 4
 systems after