diff --git a/docs/hammerman.1 b/docs/hammerman.1
index 82a0ecf5..57b72087 100644
--- a/docs/hammerman.1
+++ b/docs/hammerman.1
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ Benchmarking for parsing backends -- determine empirically which backend will be
 11
 12      HParseResult *result = h_parse(hello_parser, input, inputsize);
 13      if(result) {
-14          printf("yay!\n");
+14          printf("yay!\\n");
 15      } else {
-16          printf("boo!\n");
+16          printf("boo!\\n");
 17      }
 18  }
 .fi
diff --git a/docs/hammerman.3 b/docs/hammerman.3
index cf1654b9..d974aee0 100644
--- a/docs/hammerman.3
+++ b/docs/hammerman.3
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ Benchmarking for parsing backends -- determine empirically which backend will be
 11
 12      HParseResult *result = h_parse(hello_parser, input, inputsize);
 13      if(result) {
-14          printf("yay!\n");
+14          printf("yay!\\n");
 15      } else {
-16          printf("boo!\n");
+16          printf("boo!\\n");
 17      }
 18  }
 .fi