From 0e2d6561bef9b0558b0bd96fa06e748a51219d88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:26:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MANUAL: add note about title-meta, author-meta, date-meta.

Closes #5486.
---
 MANUAL.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index aa67056ce..0ced3c545 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -1397,6 +1397,12 @@ Metadata variables
         - Peter Abelard
         ...
 
+    Note that if you just want to set PDF or HTML metadata, without
+    including a title block in the document itself, you can
+    set the `title-meta`, `author-meta`, and `date-meta`
+    variables.  (By default these are set automatically, based
+    on `title`, `author`, and `date`.)
+
 `subtitle`
 :   document subtitle, included in HTML, EPUB, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and docx
     documents