diff --git a/doc/org/.dir-locals.el.in b/doc/org/.dir-locals.el.in
index 1169e0855..8f12291e9 100644
--- a/doc/org/.dir-locals.el.in
+++ b/doc/org/.dir-locals.el.in
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
:auto-sitemap t
:sitemap-title "Sitemap for Spot"
:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-html
- :html-head "\n"
+ :html-head ""
:auto-preamble t)
("spot-static"
:base-directory "."
diff --git a/doc/org/init.el.in b/doc/org/init.el.in
index e9b6fac2c..b434dedfc 100644
--- a/doc/org/init.el.in
+++ b/doc/org/init.el.in
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
:sitemap-title "Sitemap for Spot"
:sitemap-function spot-publish-sitemap
:publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html
- :html-head "\n"
+ :html-head ""
:auto-preamble t)
("spot-static"
:base-directory "@abs_top_srcdir@/doc/org/"