diff --git a/AUTHORS.src b/AUTHORS.src
index c9dfea721f..172a1a3f40 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.src
+++ b/AUTHORS.src
@@ -3687,6 +3687,7 @@ Martin Kacer	<kacer.martin[AT]gmail.com> {
 	JSON and Elasticsearch tshark output
 	json2pcap
 }
+
 Ben Stewart		<bst[AT]google.com> {
 	SCTE-35 dissector
 }
diff --git a/doc/make-authors-short.pl b/doc/make-authors-short.pl
index 229622d995..14fdd503ac 100755
--- a/doc/make-authors-short.pl
+++ b/doc/make-authors-short.pl
@@ -33,12 +33,14 @@ s/\xef\xbb\xbf//;		# Skip UTF-8 byte order mark
 print unless /^\n/;
 
 while (<>) {
-	if (/(.*){/) {
+	if (/(.*?)\s*\{/) {
 		$subinfo = 1;
 		print "$1\n";
-	} elsif (/}/) {
+	} elsif (/\}/) {
 		$subinfo = 0;
 		if (($nextline = <>) !~ /^[\s]*$/) {
+			print STDERR "Missing newline after '}', found: $nextline"
+				if $nextline =~ m/\{/;
 			print $nextline;
 		}
 	} elsif ($subinfo == 1) {