diff --git a/doc/examples/Makefile b/doc/examples/Makefile
index 4d6c7a8be6..3b70f66fb2 100644
--- a/doc/examples/Makefile
+++ b/doc/examples/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,19 @@
 # use pkg-config for getting CFLAGS abd LDFLAGS
-FFMPEG_LIBS=libavdevice libavformat libavfilter libavcodec libswscale libavutil
+FFMPEG_LIBS=    libavdevice                        \
+                libavformat                        \
+                libavfilter                        \
+                libavcodec                         \
+                libswscale                         \
+                libavutil                          \
+
 CFLAGS+=-Wall $(shell pkg-config  --cflags $(FFMPEG_LIBS))
 LDFLAGS+=$(shell pkg-config --libs $(FFMPEG_LIBS))
 
-EXAMPLES=decoding_encoding filtering_video filtering_audio metadata muxing
+EXAMPLES=       decoding_encoding                  \
+                filtering_video                    \
+                filtering_audio                    \
+                metadata                           \
+                muxing                             \
 
 OBJS=$(addsuffix .o,$(EXAMPLES))