diff --git a/sys-apps/dialog/dialog-1.2.recipe b/sys-apps/dialog/dialog-1.2.recipe
index 96a173b07..e0b48c30f 100644
--- a/sys-apps/dialog/dialog-1.2.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/dialog/dialog-1.2.recipe
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY="Display TUI widgets for shell scripts"
 DESCRIPTION="
-Dialog is an application used in shell scripts which displays text user
+Dialog is an application used in shell scripts which displays text user\
 interface widgets. It uses the curses or ncurses library.
 "
 HOMEPAGE="http://invisible-island.net/dialog/"