diff --git a/manpages/shorewall-providers.xml b/manpages/shorewall-providers.xml
index 921440223..cd0695f8c 100644
--- a/manpages/shorewall-providers.xml
+++ b/manpages/shorewall-providers.xml
@@ -46,17 +46,19 @@
 
     <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">NAME</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">NAME</emphasis> —
+        <emphasis>name</emphasis></term>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para>The provider name. Must be a valid shell variable name. The
-          names 'local', 'main', 'default' and 'unspec' are reserved and may
-          not be used as provider names.</para>
+          <para>The provider <emphasis>name</emphasis>. Must be a valid shell
+          variable name. The names 'local', 'main', 'default' and 'unspec' are
+          reserved and may not be used as provider names.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">NUMBER</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">NUMBER</emphasis> —
+        <emphasis>number</emphasis></term>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>The provider number -- a number between 1 and 15. Each
@@ -65,11 +67,12 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">MARK</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">MARK</emphasis> —
+        <emphasis>value</emphasis></term>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para>A FWMARK value used in your shorewall-tcrules(5) file to
-          direct packets to this provider.</para>
+          <para>A FWMARK <emphasis>value</emphasis> used in your
+          shorewall-tcrules(5) file to direct packets to this provider.</para>
 
           <para>If HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes in shorewall.conf(5), then the value
           must be a multiple of 256 between 256 and 65280 or their hexadecimal
@@ -80,7 +83,8 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">DUPLICATE</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">DUPLICATE</emphasis> —
+        <emphasis>routing-table-name</emphasis></term>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>The name of an existing table to duplicate to create this
@@ -91,7 +95,8 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">INTERFACE</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">INTERFACE</emphasis> —
+        <emphasis>interface</emphasis></term>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>The name of the network interface to the provider. Must be
@@ -100,7 +105,9 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">GATEWAY</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">GATEWAY</emphasis> - {<emphasis
+        role="bold">-</emphasis>|<emphasis>address</emphasis>|<emphasis
+        role="bold">detect</emphasis>}</term>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>The IP address of the provider's gateway router.</para>
@@ -113,7 +120,9 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">OPTIONS</emphasis> (Optional)</term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">OPTIONS</emphasis> (Optional)— [<emphasis
+        role="bold">-</emphasis>|<emphasis>option</emphasis>[<emphasis
+        role="bold">,</emphasis><emphasis>option</emphasis>]...]</term>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>A comma-separated list selected from the following. The order
@@ -173,7 +182,9 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><emphasis role="bold">COPY</emphasis></term>
+        <term><emphasis role="bold">COPY</emphasis> —
+        [<emphasis>interface</emphasis><emphasis
+        role="bold">[,</emphasis><emphasis>interface</emphasis>]...]</term>
 
         <listitem>
           <para>A comma-separated list of other interfaces on your firewall.