diff --git a/man/pandoc.1 b/man/pandoc.1
index 8d206819c..efa4934b6 100644
--- a/man/pandoc.1
+++ b/man/pandoc.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"t
-.\" Automatically generated by Pandoc 2.11.0.2
+.\" Automatically generated by Pandoc 2.11.0.4
 .\"
 .TH "Pandoc User\[cq]s Guide" "" "October 20, 2020" "pandoc 2.11.0.4" ""
 .hy
@@ -981,6 +981,8 @@ speaker notes) may not work in an offline \[lq]self-contained\[rq]
 .TP
 \f[B]\f[CB]--html-q-tags\f[B]\f[R]
 Use \f[C]<q>\f[R] tags for quotes in HTML.
+(This option only has an effect if the \f[C]smart\f[R] extension is
+enabled for the input format used.)
 .TP
 \f[B]\f[CB]--ascii\f[B]\f[R]
 Use only ASCII characters in output.