--- a/doc/stress.texi
+++ b/doc/stress.texi
@@ -62,47 +62,47 @@
 
 @table @samp
 @item -?
-@itemx --help
+@item --help
 Show help information.
 
-@itemx --version
+@item --version
 Show version information.
 
 @item -v
-@itemx --verbose
+@item --verbose
 Turn up verbosity.
 
 @item -q
-@itemx --quiet
+@item --quiet
 Turn down verbosity.
 
 @item -n
-@itemx --dry-run
+@item --dry-run
 Show what would have been done.
 
 @item -t @var{secs}
-@itemx --timeout @var{secs}
+@item --timeout @var{secs}
 Time out after @var{secs} seconds.
 
-@itemx --backoff @var{usecs}
+@item --backoff @var{usecs}
 Wait for factor of @var{usecs} microseconds before starting work.
 
 @item -c @var{forks}
-@itemx --cpu @var{forks}
+@item --cpu @var{forks}
 Spawn @var{forks} processes each spinning on @samp{sqrt()}.
 
 @item -i @var{forks}
-@itemx --io @var{forks}
+@item --io @var{forks}
 Spawn @var{forks} processes each spinning on @samp{sync()}.
 
 @item -m @var{forks}
-@itemx --vm @var{forks}
+@item --vm @var{forks}
 Spawn @var{forks} processes each spinning on @samp{malloc()}.
 
-@itemx --vm-bytes @var{bytes}
+@item --vm-bytes @var{bytes}
 Allocate @var{bytes} number of bytes.  The default is 1.
 
-@itemx --vm-hang
+@item --vm-hang
 Instruct each vm hog process to go to sleep after allocating memory.  This
 contrasts with their normal behavior, which is to free the memory and
 reallocate @emph{ad infinitum}.  This is useful for simulating low memory
@@ -114,13 +114,13 @@
 @end example
 
 @item -d @var{forks}
-@itemx --hdd @var{forks}
+@item --hdd @var{forks}
 Spawn @var{forks} processes each spinning on @samp{write()}.
 
-@itemx --hdd-bytes @var{bytes}
+@item --hdd-bytes @var{bytes}
 Write @var{bytes} number of bytes.  The default is 1GB.
 
-@itemx --hdd-noclean
+@item --hdd-noclean
 Do not unlink file(s) to which random ASCII data is written.
 
 @end table