diff --git a/SearchStructures/doc_tex/SearchStructures/rangesegmentref.tex b/SearchStructures/doc_tex/SearchStructures/rangesegmentref.tex
index fd398f5f8a0..18e5c8e4447 100644
--- a/SearchStructures/doc_tex/SearchStructures/rangesegmentref.tex
+++ b/SearchStructures/doc_tex/SearchStructures/rangesegmentref.tex
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ type information the sublayers could be created. This approach lead to nested
 template arguments, since the sublayer tree can again have a template
 argument defining the sublayer. Therefore, the internal class and function
 identifiers got longer than a compiler-dependent limit.
-This happend already for $d=2$.
+This happens already for $d=2$.
 
 Therefore, we chose another, object oriented,
 design. We defined  a pure