cusomizing-pandoc.md: streamline template text

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/doc/customizing-pandoc.md b/doc/customizing-pandoc.md
index fc0e57edd..62094e5ce 100644
--- a/doc/customizing-pandoc.md
+++ b/doc/customizing-pandoc.md
@@ -21,20 +21,12 @@ Pandoc comes with a default template for (almost) every output
 format. A template is a plain text file containing variables
 that are replaced by text generated by pandoc.  For example,
 the variable `$body$` will be replaced by the document body,
-and `$title$` by the title from metadata.  Variables will
-be automatically populated by the contents of like-named
-metadata fields (with proper escaping).  (See
-[YAML metadata blocks](/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block)
-for documentation on setting metafields in pandoc markdown
-documents; the command line option
-[`--metadata`](/MANUAL.html#option--metadata) can also be
-used.) Values for variables can also be specified directly
-from the command line using `--variable` (which does no escaping).
+and `$title$` by the title from metadata.
 
 To look at the default template for an output format, you can do
 `pandoc -D FORMAT`, where `FORMAT` is replaced by the name of
-the format.  You can also replace the defaults with your
-own custom templates, either by using the `--template` option
+the format. For example `pandoc -D latex`. You can also use your
+own template instead, either by using the `--template` option
 or by putting the custom template in your user data directory
 (on linux and macOS, `~/.pandoc/templates/`).