diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index b0afaeb..ffcb0ae 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -2067,48 +2067,64 @@ repeat('Pg', 4) <returnvalue>PgPgPgPg</returnvalue>
     <tgroup cols="1">
      <thead>
       <row>
-       <entry role="functableentry">
-        Function/Operator<?br?>Description<?br?>Example(s)
-       </entry>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        Function/Operator
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Description
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Example(s)
+       </para></entry>
       </row>
      </thead>
 
      <tbody>
       <row>
-       <entry role="functableentry">
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
          <primary>character string</primary>
          <secondary>concatenation</secondary>
         </indexterm>
         <type>text</type> <literal>||</literal> <type>text</type>
         <returnvalue>text</returnvalue>
-       <?br?>
+       </para>
+       <para>
         Concatenates the two strings.
-       <?br?>
+       </para>
+       <para>
         <literal>'Post' || 'greSQL'</literal>
         <returnvalue>PostgreSQL</returnvalue>
-       </entry>
+       </para></entry>
       </row>
 
       <row>
-       <entry role="functableentry">
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+<indexterm>
+         <primary>character string test</primary>
+</indexterm>
         <type>text</type> <literal>||</literal> <type>anynonarray</type>
-        or <type>anynonarray</type> <literal>||</literal> <type>text</type>
         <returnvalue>text</returnvalue>
-       <?br?>
+       </para>
+       <para role="func_signature">
+        <type>anynonarray</type> <literal>||</literal> <type>text</type>
+        <returnvalue>text</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
         Converts the non-string input to text, then concatenates the two
         strings.  (The non-string input cannot be of an array type, because
         that would create ambiguity with the array <literal>||</literal>
         operators.  If you want to concatenate an array's text equivalent,
         cast it to <type>text</type> explicitly.)
-       <?br?>
+       </para>
+       <para>
         <literal>'Value: ' || 42</literal>
         <returnvalue>Value: 42</returnvalue>
-       </entry>
+       </para></entry>
       </row>
 
       <row>
-       <entry role="functableentry">
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
          <primary>normalized</primary>
         </indexterm>
@@ -2117,7 +2133,8 @@ repeat('Pg', 4) <returnvalue>PgPgPgPg</returnvalue>
         </indexterm>
          <type>text</type> <literal>IS</literal> <optional><literal>NOT</literal></optional> <optional><parameter>form</parameter></optional> <literal>NORMALIZED</literal>
         <returnvalue>boolean</returnvalue>
-       <?br?>
+       </para>
+       <para>
         Checks whether the string is in the specified Unicode normalization
         form.  The optional <parameter>form</parameter> key word specifies the
         form: <literal>NFC</literal> (the default), <literal>NFD</literal>,
@@ -2125,10 +2142,11 @@ repeat('Pg', 4) <returnvalue>PgPgPgPg</returnvalue>
         only be used when the server encoding is <literal>UTF8</literal>.  Note
         that checking for normalization using this expression is often faster
         than normalizing possibly already normalized strings.
-       <?br?>
+       </para>
+       <para>
         <literal>U&amp;'\0061\0308bc' IS NFD NORMALIZED</literal>
         <returnvalue>t</returnvalue>
-       </entry>
+       </para></entry>
       </row>
 
       <row>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
index 6797e06..e923b00 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-fo.xsl
@@ -89,6 +89,16 @@
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
 
+<!-- formatting for entries in tables of functions -->
+<xsl:template match="entry[@role='func_table_entry']/para">
+  <fo:block margin-left="4em" text-align="left">
+    <xsl:if test="self::para[@role='func_signature']">
+      <xsl:attribute name="text-indent">-3.5em</xsl:attribute>
+    </xsl:if>
+    <xsl:apply-templates/>
+  </fo:block>
+</xsl:template>
+
 <!-- overrides stylesheet-common.xsl -->
 <!-- FOP needs us to be explicit about the font to use for right arrow -->
 <xsl:template match="returnvalue">
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css
index f369e12..d28cec4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css
@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ td.functableentry {
 	text-align: left;
 }
 
+th.func_table_entry p,
+td.func_table_entry p {
+	margin-top: 0.1em;
+	margin-bottom: 0.1em;
+	padding-left: 4em;
+	text-align: left;
+}
+
+p.func_signature {
+	text-indent: -3.5em;
+}
+
 /* Put these here instead of inside the HTML (see unsetting of
    admon.style in XSL) so that the web site stylesheet can set its own
    style. */