diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_policy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_policy.sgml
index 564a16994d6..8cd8db7d18c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_policy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_policy.sgml
@@ -407,8 +407,7 @@ CREATE POLICY <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable> ON <replaceable
       <row>
        <entry><command>INSERT ... RETURNING</command></entry>
        <entry>
-        New row
-        <footnote id="rls-select-priv">
+        New row <footnote id="rls-select-priv">
          <para>
           If read access is required to the existing or new row (for example,
           a <literal>WHERE</literal> or <literal>RETURNING</literal> clause
@@ -424,8 +423,7 @@ CREATE POLICY <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable> ON <replaceable
       <row>
        <entry><command>UPDATE</command></entry>
        <entry>
-        Existing &amp; new rows
-        <footnoteref linkend="rls-select-priv">
+        Existing &amp; new rows <footnoteref linkend="rls-select-priv">
        </entry>
        <entry>&mdash;</entry>
        <entry>Existing row</entry>
@@ -435,8 +433,7 @@ CREATE POLICY <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable> ON <replaceable
       <row>
        <entry><command>DELETE</command></entry>
        <entry>
-        Existing row
-        <footnoteref linkend="rls-select-priv">
+        Existing row <footnoteref linkend="rls-select-priv">
        </entry>
        <entry>&mdash;</entry>
        <entry>&mdash;</entry>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-man.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-man.xsl
index e9c407230c5..5ef2fcd634d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-man.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-man.xsl
@@ -191,6 +191,12 @@
   <xsl:template match="indexterm"/>
 
 
+<!-- https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/issues/59 -->
+<xsl:template match="a/sup">
+  <xsl:apply-templates/>
+</xsl:template>
+
+
 <!-- Gentext customization -->
 
 <!-- see http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html -->