diff --git a/man/text.texi b/man/text.texi
index 169c9064d27..ab94b51f133 100644
--- a/man/text.texi
+++ b/man/text.texi
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ sentence, together with the whitespace following the sentence.  Its
 normal value is
 
 @example
-"[.?!][]\"')]*\\($\\|\t\\|  \\)[ \t\n]*"
+"[.?!][]\"')]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\|  \\)[ \t\n]*"
 @end example
 
 @noindent