In a plasma display panel where a discharge space is partitioned by lattice-shaped barrier rib which comprises vertical ribs and horizontal ribs, a manufacturing method for the plasma display panel is acquired. This manufacturing method is designed for allowing substantially-linear exhaustion-use through holes parallel to the vertical ribs to be formed on the horizontal ribs with the execution of a simple and convenient processing step. The plasma-display-panel manufacturing method thus acquired includes steps of forming a glass-containing material, which becomes step-difference, into a stripe-shaped configuration at positions of the vertical ribs on a coated film of a barrier rib material formed on a glass substrate, and after that, performing patterning of the lattice-shaped barrier rib.