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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
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--- 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*