From 3f28e332bf5608a54c54bd11c77778e46f625764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 11:54:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove misleading sentence in --variables documentation.

---
 MANUAL.txt | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index 98970c14f..b4e15319f 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -697,11 +697,8 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL:
 `-V` *KEY*[`=`*VAL*], `--variable=`*KEY*[`:`*VAL*]
 
 :   Set the template variable *KEY* to the value *VAL* when rendering the
-    document in standalone mode. This is generally only useful when the
-    `--template` option is used to specify a custom template, since
-    pandoc automatically sets the variables used in the default
-    templates.  If no *VAL* is specified, the key will be given the
-    value `true`.
+    document in standalone mode. If no *VAL* is specified, the
+    key will be given the value `true`.
 
 `-D` *FORMAT*, `--print-default-template=`*FORMAT*