#2769: markup glitch.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 17493e7..e27109b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@
 
   ``permutations(iter[, r])`` returns all the permutations of length *r* of
   the iterable's elements.  If *r* is not specified, it will default to the 
-  number of elements produced by the iterable.
+  number of elements produced by the iterable. ::
 
     itertools.permutations([1,2,3,4], 2) ->
       [(1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4),