From d4ee8f97bb79419150dee877a861cfa164127bb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Stansby <dstansby@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 17:43:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #9711: Minor markup fix.

---
 lib/matplotlib/lines.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/lines.py b/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
index 057a03291a25..4cd2f4827504 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
@@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ def set_markevery(self, every):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        every: None | int | length-2 tuple of int | slice | list/array of int |
-        float | length-2 tuple of float
+        every: None | int | length-2 tuple of int | slice | list/array of int \
+| float | length-2 tuple of float
             Which markers to plot.
 
             - every=None, every point will be plotted.