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creates a file `mytextfile.pdf`.
+If you want to use pandoc's command-line options in these scripts,
+put the options in the environment variable `PANDOC_OPTS`. For
+example, to convert `tusks.txt` to `tusks.html` using smart quotes,
+ellipses, and dashes, with "Elephants" as the page title prefix:
+
+ PANDOC_OPTS="-S -T Elephants" markdown2html tusks.txt > tusks.html
+
+To make these options persistent, use `export`:
+
+ export PANDOC_OPTS="-S -T Elephants"
+ markdown2html tusks.txt > tusks.html
+ markdown2html trunk.txt > trunk.html
+
# Command-line options
Various command-line options can be used to customize the output.