diff --git a/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
index 65b0868bcbcb..63935d8e0fb9 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.14 1999/03/17 20:19:47 garbled Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf.5,v 1.14 1999/03/17 20:19:47 garbled Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 .\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 .\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
 .\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
-.\" 	This product includes software developed by Luke Mewburn.
+.\"    This product includes software developed by Luke Mewburn.
 .\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
 .\"    derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
 .\"
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ file specifies how the
 .Pp
 The configuration file controls how a process looks up various databases
 containing information regarding hosts, users (passwords), groups, etc.
-Each database comes from a source (such as local files, DNS,
-.Tn NIS ,
+Each database comes from a source (such as local files, DNS, NIS ,
 and cache), and the order to look up the sources is specified in
 .Nm .
 .Pp
@@ -182,9 +181,7 @@ Try the next source
 Return with the current result
 .El
 .Ss Format of file
-A
-.Tn BNF
-description of the syntax of
+A BNF description of the syntax of
 .Nm
 is:
 .Pp
@@ -250,12 +247,10 @@ In historical multi-source implementations, the
 and
 .Sq -
 characters are used to specify the importing of user password and
-group information from
-.Tn NIS .
+group information from NIS .
 Although
 .Nm
-provides alternative methods of accessing distributed sources such as
-.Tn NIS ,
+provides alternative methods of accessing distributed sources such as NIS ,
 specifying a sole source of
 .Dq compat
 will provide the historical behaviour.
@@ -328,9 +323,7 @@ resides in
 To lookup hosts in
 .Pa /etc/hosts
 , then in cache,
-and then from the DNS, and lookup user information from
-.Tn NIS
-then files, use:
+and then from the DNS, and lookup user information from NIS then files, use:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width passwd: -compact
 .It hosts:
@@ -362,9 +355,7 @@ entries.
 .Fx Ns 's
 .Lb libc
 provides stubs for compatibility with NSS modules
-written for the
-.Tn GNU
-C Library
+written for the GNU C Library
 .Nm nsswitch
 interface.
 However, these stubs only support the use of the
@@ -390,10 +381,8 @@ Project, where it appeared first in
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An Luke Mewburn Aq Mt lukem@netbsd.org
 wrote this freely distributable name-service switch implementation,
-using ideas from the
-.Tn ULTRIX
+using ideas from the ULTRIX
 .Xr svc.conf 5
-and
-.Tn Solaris
+and Solaris
 .Xr nsswitch.conf 4
 manual pages.