diff --git a/documentation/sdk-manual/appendix-customizing-standard.rst b/documentation/sdk-manual/appendix-customizing-standard.rst
index c619c15e4..90b73dc20 100644
--- a/documentation/sdk-manual/appendix-customizing-standard.rst
+++ b/documentation/sdk-manual/appendix-customizing-standard.rst
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ Adding API Documentation to the Standard SDK
 
 You can include API documentation as well as any other documentation
 provided by recipes with the standard SDK by adding "api-documentation"
-to the
-:term:`DISTRO_FEATURES`
-variable: DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " api-documentation" Setting this
-variable as shown here causes the OpenEmbedded build system to build the
-documentation and then include it in the standard SDK.
+to the :term:`DISTRO_FEATURES` variable::
+
+   DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " api-documentation"
+
+Setting this variable as shown here causes the OpenEmbedded build system to
+build the documentation and then include it in the standard SDK.