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@@ -262,9 +262,11 @@ in the title as it appears at the beginning of the HTML body). (See
below on Titles.)
`-S` or `--smart` causes `pandoc` to produce typographically
-correct HTML output, along the lines of John Gruber's [Smartypants].
+correct output, along the lines of John Gruber's [Smartypants].
Straight quotes are converted to curly quotes, `---` to dashes, and
-`...` to ellipses.
+`...` to ellipses. (Note: This option is only significant when
+the input format is `markdown`. It is selected automatically
+when the output format is `latex`.)
[Smartypants]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/