diff --git a/README b/README
index 0c21054a1..a4085db5e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@ For further documentation, see the `pandoc(1)` man page.
     sections are not numbered.
 
 `--no-wrap`
-:   disables text-wrapping in Markdown, reStructuredText, DocBook, HTML,
-    and man output.
+:   disables text-wrapping in output.  By default, text is wrapped
+    appropriately for the output format.
 
 `--dump-args`
 :   is intended to make it easier to create wrapper scripts that use
diff --git a/man/man1/pandoc.1.md b/man/man1/pandoc.1.md
index c75767913..bf05b6d3a 100644
--- a/man/man1/pandoc.1.md
+++ b/man/man1/pandoc.1.md
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ to Pandoc.  Or use `html2markdown`(1), a wrapper around `pandoc`.
     them.)
 
 \--no-wrap
-:   Disable text wrapping in Markdown, reStructuredText, DocBook, HTML,
-    and man output.  (Default is to wrap text.)
+:   Disable text wrapping in output. (Default is to wrap text.)
 
 \--toc, \--table-of-contents
 :   Include an automatically generated table of contents (HTML, markdown,