From d3966372f5049eea56213b069fc4d70d8af9144c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:08:11 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify MANUAL.txt on `--preserve-tabs`

---
 MANUAL.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index 3b7bb544c..9abebfbc8 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -634,9 +634,10 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL:
 
 `-p`, `--preserve-tabs`
 
-:   Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces (the default).
-    Note that this will only affect tabs in literal code spans and code
-    blocks; tabs in regular text will be treated as spaces.
+:   Preserve tabs instead of converting them to spaces. (By default, pandoc
+    converts tabs to spaces before parsing its input.)  Note that this will
+    only affect tabs in literal code spans and code blocks. Tabs in regular
+    text are always treated as spaces.
 
 `--tab-stop=`*NUMBER*