diff --git a/man3/assert.3 b/man3/assert.3
index 1b85a6848..af3509004 100644
--- a/man3/assert.3
+++ b/man3/assert.3
@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ assert \- abort the program if assertion is false
 .BI "void assert(scalar " expression );
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-This macro can help programmers find bugs in their programs, or handle exceptional cases
-via a crash that will produce limited debugging output. The function will print an
-error message to standard error, e.g., "assertion failed in file foo.c, function do_bar(), line 1287"
+This macro can help programmers find bugs in their programs,
+or handle exceptional cases
+via a crash that will produce limited debugging output.
+The function will print an error message to standard error
+(e.g., "assertion failed in file foo.c, function do_bar(), line 1287")
 and terminate the program by calling
 .BR abort (3)
 if
@@ -50,11 +52,13 @@ is defined at the moment
 .I <assert.h>
 was last included, the macro
 .BR assert ()
-generates no code, and hence does nothing at all. It is not recommended to define 
+generates no code, and hence does nothing at all.
+It is not recommended to define
 .B NDEBUG
 if using
 .BR assert ()
-to detect error conditions since the software may behave non-deterministically.
+to detect error conditions since the software
+may behave non-deterministically.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 No value is returned.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES