From e9abe72a274d2dc1149fe2976d2eafaee017d371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fiddlosopher <fiddlosopher@788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:41:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a note to pandoc(1) man page about the differences
 between standard markdown and Pandoc's markdown-variant.

git-svn-id: https://pandoc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@361 788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b
---
 man/man1/pandoc.1 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man1/pandoc.1 b/man/man1/pandoc.1
index d8b226977..820be3276 100644
--- a/man/man1/pandoc.1
+++ b/man/man1/pandoc.1
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ converts \fIchap1.txt\fR from markdown to LaTeX.  And
 .PP
 converts \fIREADME\fR from markdown to HTML.
 .PP
+Pandoc's version of markdown is an extended variant of standard
+markdown: the differences are described in the \fIREADME\fR file in
+the user documentation.  If standard markdown syntax is desired, the
+\fB\-\-strict\fR option may be used.
+.PP
 \fIPandoc\fR uses the UTF\-8 character encoding for both input and output.
 If your local character encoding is not UTF\-8, you should pipe input
 and output through \fBiconv\fR: