6 files changed, 67 insertions, 113 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/html2markdown.1 b/man/man1/html2markdown.1
index c1fe11474..5f6162d13 100644
--- a/man/man1/html2markdown.1
+++ b/man/man1/html2markdown.1
@@ -2,21 +2,16 @@
 .SH NAME
 html2markdown \- converts HTML to markdown-formatted text
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B html2markdown 
-[
-.I input-file 
-or 
-.I URL
-]
+\fBhtml2markdown\fR [ \fIinput-file\fR or \fIURL\fR ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.I html2markdown 
-converts 
-.I input-file 
-or 
-.I URL 
-(or text from STDIN)
-from HTML to  markdown-formatted plain text.  It uses an available program
-(e.g. wget, w3m, lynx or curl) to fetch the contents of the URL.
+\fBhtml2markdown\fR converts \fIinput-file\fR or \fIURL\fR 
+(or text from STDIN) from HTML to  markdown-formatted plain text.
+It uses an available program (e.g. wget, w3m, lynx or curl) to fetch
+the contents of the URL. 
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+Any command-line options contained in the PANDOC_OPTS environment variable
+will be passed to \fBpandoc\fR by this wrapper script.  See \fBpandoc\fR(1)
+for a list of options that may be used.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 \fBpandoc\fR(1),
 \fBmarkdown2html\fR(1),
diff --git a/man/man1/latex2markdown.1 b/man/man1/latex2markdown.1
index b4acd363c..f60aeffe9 100644
--- a/man/man1/latex2markdown.1
+++ b/man/man1/latex2markdown.1
@@ -2,15 +2,14 @@
 .SH NAME
 latex2markdown \- converts LaTeX to markdown-formatted text
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B latex2markdown 
-[
-.I input-file
-]
+\fBlatex2markdown\fR [ \fIinput-file\fR ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.I latex2markdown 
-converts 
-.I input-file 
+\fBlatex2markdown\fR converts \fIinput-file\fR
 (or text from STDIN) from LaTeX to markdown-formatted plain text.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+Any command-line options contained in the PANDOC_OPTS environment variable
+will be passed to \fBpandoc\fR by this wrapper script.  See \fBpandoc\fR(1)
+for a list of options that may be used.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 \fBpandoc\fR(1),
 \fBmarkdown2html\fR(1),
diff --git a/man/man1/markdown2html.1 b/man/man1/markdown2html.1
index 63ad7a085..76b449ec8 100644
--- a/man/man1/markdown2html.1
+++ b/man/man1/markdown2html.1
@@ -2,17 +2,16 @@
 .SH NAME
 markdown2html \- converts markdown-formatted text to HTML 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B markdown2html 
-[
-.I input-files
-]
+\fBmarkdown2html\fR [ \fIinput-files\fR ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.I markdown2html 
-converts 
-.I input-files 
+\fBmarkdown2html\fR converts \fIinput-files\fR 
 (or text from STDIN) from markdown-formatted plain text to HTML. 
 If multiple files are specified, they will be combined to make a single
 HTML document.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+Any command-line options contained in the PANDOC_OPTS environment variable
+will be passed to \fBpandoc\fR by this wrapper script.  See \fBpandoc\fR(1)
+for a list of options that may be used.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 \fBpandoc\fR(1),
 \fBhtml2markdown\fR(1),
diff --git a/man/man1/markdown2latex.1 b/man/man1/markdown2latex.1
index 5529f75ab..374896e5b 100644
--- a/man/man1/markdown2latex.1
+++ b/man/man1/markdown2latex.1
@@ -2,17 +2,15 @@
 .SH NAME
 markdown2latex \- converts markdown-formatted text to LaTeX 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B markdown2latex 
-[
-.I input-files
-]
+\fBmarkdown2latex\fR [ \fIinput-files\fR ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.I markdown2latex 
-converts 
-.I input-files 
-(or text from STDIN) from markdown-formatted
-plain text to LaTeX.  If multiple files are specified, they will
-be combined to make a single LaTeX document.
+\fBmarkdown2latex\fR converts \fIinput-files\fR (or text from STDIN)
+from markdown-formatted plain text to LaTeX.  If multiple files are
+specified, they will be combined to make a single LaTeX document.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+Any command-line options contained in the PANDOC_OPTS environment variable
+will be passed to \fBpandoc\fR by this wrapper script.  See \fBpandoc\fR(1)
+for a list of options that may be used.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 \fBpandoc\fR(1),
 \fBmarkdown2html\fR(1),
diff --git a/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1 b/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1
index 420c1bd86..dfbfd819e 100644
--- a/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1
+++ b/man/man1/markdown2pdf.1
@@ -2,28 +2,20 @@
 .SH NAME
 markdown2pdf \- converts markdown-formatted text to PDF, using pdflatex 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B markdown2pdf 
-[
-.B -o|--output 
-.I output-file
-] [
-.I input-file
-]
+\fBmarkdown2pdf\fR [ \fB-o|--output\fR \fIoutput-file\fR ] 
+[ \fIinput-file\fR ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.I markdown2pdf 
-converts 
-.I input-file 
-(or text from STDIN) from markdown-formatted
-plain text to PDF, using 
-.I pdflatex. 
-If no output filename is specified, the name of the output file is derived
-from the input file; thus, for example, if the input file is 
-.IR hello.txt ,
-the output file will be 
-.IR hello.pdf .
-If the input is read from STDIN and no output filename is specified, 
-the output file will be named 
-.IR stdin.pdf .
+\fBmarkdown2pdf\fR converts \fIinput-file\fR (or text from STDIN) from
+markdown-formatted plain text to PDF, using \fBpdflatex\fR.  If no output
+filename is specified, the name of the output file is derived from the
+input file; thus, for example, if the input file is \fIhello.txt\fR,
+the output file will be \fIhello.pdf\fR.  If the input is read from STDIN
+and no output filename is specified, the output file will be named 
+\fIstdin.pdf\fR.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+Any command-line options contained in the PANDOC_OPTS environment variable
+will be passed to \fBpandoc\fR by this wrapper script.  See \fBpandoc\fR(1)
+for a list of options that may be used.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 \fBpandoc\fR(1),
 \fBmarkdown2html\fR(1),
diff --git a/man/man1/pandoc.1 b/man/man1/pandoc.1
index 6ca3bb9e4..0d0c1b09f 100644
--- a/man/man1/pandoc.1
+++ b/man/man1/pandoc.1
@@ -2,48 +2,33 @@
 .SH NAME
 pandoc \- general markup converter
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B pandoc 
-[
-.I options
-] [
-.I input-files
-]
+\fBpandoc\fR [ \fIoptions\fR ] [ \fIinput-files\fR ]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.I Pandoc
-converts files from one markup format to another. It can read markdown
-and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write
-markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, RTF, and S5 HTML slide shows.
+\fIPandoc\fR converts files from one markup format to another. It can
+read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and
+it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, RTF, and S5 HTML
+slide shows.
 .PP
-If no 
-.I input-files
-are specified, input is read from STDIN.  Otherwise, the
-.I input-files
-are concatenated (with a blank line between each) and used
-as input.  Output goes to STDOUT.  If you want output to a file,
+If no \fIinput-files\fR are specified, input is read from STDIN.  Otherwise,
+the \fIinput-files\fR are concatenated (with a blank line between each)
+and used as input.  Output goes to STDOUT.  If you want output to a file,
 use shell redirection:
 .IP
 .B pandoc input.txt > output.html
 .PP
-The default behavior of 
-.I Pandoc
-is to convert the
-input from markdown-formatted plain text to HTML.  Different
-input and output formats can be specified using command-line
-options.  For example,
+The default behavior of \fIPandoc\fR is to convert the input from
+markdown-formatted plain text to HTML.  Different input and output
+formats can be specified using command-line options.  For example,
 .IP
 .B pandoc -f latex -t markdown chap1.tex > chap1.txt
 .PP
-converts
-.I chap1.tex
-from LaTeX to markdown-formatted plain text.
+converts \fIchap1.tex\fR from LaTeX to markdown-formatted plain text.
 See below for a detailed list of command-line options.
 .PP
-.I Pandoc
-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
-.BR iconv :
+\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:
 .IP
 .B iconv -t utf-8 input.txt | pandoc | iconv -f utf-8
 
@@ -123,41 +108,27 @@ Link to a CSS style sheet.
 is the pathname of the style sheet.
 .TP
 .B \-H FILENAME, \-\-include-in-header=FILENAME
-Include contents of
-.I FILENAME
-at the end of the header.  Implies
-.BR \-s .
+Include contents of \fIFILENAME\fR at the end of the header.  Implies
+\fB\-s\fR.
 .TP
 .B \-B FILENAME, \-\-include-before-body=FILENAME
-Include contents of
-.I FILENAME
-at the beginning of the document body.
+Include contents of \fIFILENAME\fR at the beginning of the document body.
 .TP
 .B \-A FILENAME, \-\-include-after-body=FILENAME
-Include contents of
-.I FILENAME
-at the end of the document body.
+Include contents of \fIFILENAME\fR at the end of the document body.
 .TP
 .B \-\-custom-header=FILENAME
-Use contents of 
-.I FILENAME
+Use contents of \fIFILENAME\fR
 as the document header (overriding the default header, which can be
-printed by using the
-.B \-D
-option).  Implies
-.BR \-s .
+printed by using the \fB\-D\fR option).  Implies
+\fB-s\fR.
 .TP
 .B \-D FORMAT, \-\-print-default-header=FORMAT
-Print the default header for 
-.I FORMAT
-(
-.I html, s5, latex, markdown, rst, rtf
-).
+Print the default header for \fIFORMAT\fR
+(\fIhtml, s5, latex, markdown, rst, rtf\fR).
 .TP
 .B \-T STRING, \-\-title-prefix=STRING
-Specify 
-.I STRING
-as a prefix to the HTML window title.
+Specify \fISTRING\fR as a prefix to the HTML window title.
 
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 \fBmarkdown2html\fR(1),