diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index 3fe34ad8e..edc47dd6d 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ model.  While conversions from pandoc's Markdown to all formats aspire
 to be perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than pandoc's
 Markdown can be expected to be lossy.
 
-Using `pandoc`
---------------
+Using pandoc
+------------
 
 If no *input-files* are specified, input is read from *stdin*.
 Output goes to *stdout* by default. For output to a file,