--- a/scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m
+++ b/scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 ## The function reads the first sentence of the help text of the function
 ## @var{name}.  The first sentence is defined as the text after the function
 ## declaration until either the first period (".") or the first appearance of
-## two consecutive end-lines ("\n\n").  The text is truncated to a maximum length
+## two consecutive end-lines ("\n\n").  The text is truncated to a maximum
+## length
 ## of @var{max_len}, which defaults to 80.
 ##
 ## The optional output argument @var{status} returns the status reported by