diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1c140e12acc45a73c2e4a42c5fabc9911624c043..77611a24cb595319368cd76c93b8cfafbbc281ec 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 	and also WhereIs and WhereIsNext together in the help lines
 	of the file browser, and WriteOut and Readfile in the help
 	lines of the main window -- related stuff in one column.
+	* doc/syntax/man.nanorc - Better colouring of manpage files.
 
 2014-02-26  Konstantin Abakumov  <abakumov@Savannah>  (tiny change)
 	* doc/syntax/python.nanorc - Slightly improve the regexes for
diff --git a/doc/syntax/man.nanorc b/doc/syntax/man.nanorc
index 0dfa6febf95de7e8ca6f7e03dd56e357ab9f38aa..e96bb6729d0eeb47115bca31f690fdbae6bb6185 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/man.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/man.nanorc
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 ##
 syntax "man" "\.[1-9]x?$"
 magic "troff or preprocessor input text"
-color green "\.(S|T)H.*$"
-color brightgreen "\.(S|T)H" "\.TP"
-color brightred "\.(BR?|I[PR]?).*$"
-color brightblue "\.(BR?|I[PR]?|PP)"
-color brightwhite "\\f[BIPR]"
-color yellow "\.(br|DS|RS|RE|PD)"
+color green "\.(SH|SS|TH) .*$"
+color brightgreen "\.(SH|SS|TH) " "\.([HIT]P)"
+color brightred "\.(B[IR]?|I[BR]?|R[BI]|S[BM]) .*$"
+color brightblue "\.(B[IR]?|I[BR]?|R[BI]|S[BM]) " "\.([LP]?P)$"
+color magenta "\\f[BIPR]"
+color yellow "\.(br|DT|RS|RE|PD)"