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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
index 90ba1164e6..50a161a175 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
@@ -543,11 +543,12 @@ More formally, a spec consists of the following pieces:
* ``+`` or ``-`` or ``~`` Optional variant specifiers (``+debug``,
``-qt``, or ``~qt``) for boolean variants
* ``name=<value>`` Optional variant specifiers that are not restricted to
-boolean variants
+ boolean variants
* ``name=<value>`` Optional compiler flag specifiers. Valid flag names are
-``cflags``, ``cxxflags``, ``fflags``, ``cppflags``, ``ldflags``, and ``ldlibs``.
+ ``cflags``, ``cxxflags``, ``fflags``, ``cppflags``, ``ldflags``, and ``ldlibs``.
* ``target=<value> os=<value>`` Optional architecture specifier
-(``target=haswell os=CNL10``) * ``^`` Dependency specs (``^callpath@1.1``)
+ (``target=haswell os=CNL10``)
+* ``^`` Dependency specs (``^callpath@1.1``)
There are two things to notice here. The first is that specs are
recursively defined. That is, each dependency after ``^`` is a spec