diff --git a/Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex b/Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex
index 4c9d7ab..f7657eb 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/xmldomminidom.tex
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
 \begin{methoddesc}[Node]{toprettyxml}{\optional{indent\optional{, newl}}}
 Return a pretty-printed version of the document. \var{indent} specifies
 the indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; \var{newl} specifies
-the string emitted at the end of each line and defaults to \\n.
+the string emitted at the end of each line and defaults to \code{\e n}.
 
 \versionadded{2.1}
 \versionchanged[the encoding argument; see \method{toxml()}]{2.3}