From cb8b1c2655509544b04e31a29142c98fd391d9f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:00:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] README - improved documentation of --columns option.

---
 README | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 9aaa561bb..b589bc03a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -538,9 +538,9 @@ General writer options
 
 `--columns=`*NUMBER*
 
-:   Specify length of lines in characters (for text wrapping).
-    This affects only the generated source code, not the layout on
-    the rendered page.
+:   Specify length of lines in characters.  This affects text wrapping
+    in the generated source code (see `--wrap`).  It also affects
+    calculation of column widths for plain text tables (see [Tables] below).
 
 `--toc`, `--table-of-contents`