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@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ and not <tt>a=b+c;</tt>
    indent -br -i3 -npcs --no-tabs infile.c -o outfile.c
 </pre>
 
-<li>Use comments wherever you think it would be helpful for other developers.
+<li>
+<p>Use comments wherever you think it would be helpful for other developers.
 Several specific cases and style examples follow.  Note that we roughly
 follow <a href="https://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/">Doxygen</a> conventions.
-<br>
-<br>
+</p>
 Single-line comments:
 <pre>
    /* null-out pointer to prevent dangling reference below */