diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-cms.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-cms.pod.in
index 413f30bfdce02..db310263798e7 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl-cms.pod.in
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl-cms.pod.in
@@ -461,7 +461,8 @@ signer certificates in the message as a source of candidate signers.
 With B<-nointern> these will be the only signer certificates considered.
 
 Note that a message can have multiple signers.
-When verifying a multi-signed message, all the signatures must be valid, and so all the signer certificates need to be available.
+When verifying a multi-signed message, all the signatures must be valid,
+and so all the signer certificates need to be available.
 
 The input can be in PEM, DER, or PKCS#12 format.
 
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-smime.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-smime.pod.in
index 5188017e3bfa5..bbfb15229523e 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl-smime.pod.in
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl-smime.pod.in
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ signer certificates in the message as a source of candidate signers.
 With B<-nointern> these will be the only signer certificates considered.
 
 Note that a message can have multiple signers.
-When verifying a multi-signed message, all the signatures must be valid, and so all the signer certificates need to be available.
+When verifying a multi-signed message, all the signatures must be valid,
+and so all the signer certificates need to be available.
 
 The input can be in PEM, DER, or PKCS#12 format.