diff --git a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/esis2sgml.py b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/esis2sgml.py
index 002967a246d..c43ddbc56da 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/esis2sgml.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/esis2sgml.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def xml_convert(ifp, ofp, autoclose):
     return do_convert(ifp, ofp, xml=1, autoclose=autoclose)
 
 
-AUTOCLOSE = ("para",)
+AUTOCLOSE = ("para", "term",)
 
 
 def main():