diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiDelimiter.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiDelimiter.cpp
index 31903fc8b4..2ae6def688 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiDelimiter.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiDelimiter.cpp
@@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ GuiDelimiter::GuiDelimiter(GuiView & lv)
 
 	initMathSymbols();
 
+	FontInfo lyxfont;
+	lyxfont.setFamily(CMR_FAMILY);
+	QFontMetrics fm(frontend::getFont(lyxfont));
+	QSize item_size(fm.maxWidth(), fm.height() + 8);
+
 	typedef map<char_type, QListWidgetItem *> ListItems;
 	ListItems list_items;
 	// The last element is the empty one.
@@ -191,11 +196,12 @@ GuiDelimiter::GuiDelimiter(GuiView & lv)
 		QString symbol(ms.fontcode?
 			QChar(ms.fontcode) : toqstr(docstring(1, ms.unicode)));
 		QListWidgetItem * lwi = new QListWidgetItem(symbol);
-		FontInfo lyxfont;
 		lyxfont.setFamily(ms.fontfamily);
 		QFont font = frontend::getFont(lyxfont);
 		lwi->setFont(font);
 		lwi->setToolTip(toqstr(delim));
+		lwi->setSizeHint(item_size);
+		lwi->setTextAlignment(Qt::AlignTop);
 		list_items[ms.unicode] = lwi;
 		leftLW->addItem(lwi);
 	}
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/DelimiterUi.ui b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/DelimiterUi.ui
index 0044d13bb1..21c6ad1299 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/DelimiterUi.ui
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/DelimiterUi.ui
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
           <enum>QListView::Adjust</enum>
          </property>
          <property name="spacing" >
-          <number>0</number>
+          <number>2</number>
          </property>
          <property name="currentRow" >
           <number>-1</number>
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
           <enum>QListView::Adjust</enum>
          </property>
          <property name="spacing" >
-          <number>0</number>
+          <number>2</number>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>