diff --git a/rem2html/rem2html.in b/rem2html/rem2html.in
index c1fba480..498dfeea 100644
--- a/rem2html/rem2html.in
+++ b/rem2html/rem2html.in
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ rem2html - Convert the output of "remind -pp" to HTML
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-    remind -pp ... | rem2html [options]
+    remind -pp [remind_options] file | rem2html [options]
 
 You can also use the old interchange format as below, but the -pp
 version is preferred.
 
-    remind -p ... | rem2html [options]
+    remind -p [remind_options] file | rem2html [options]
 
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ sub usage
     print STDERR <<"EOM";
 $TIDY_PROGNAME: Produce an HTML calendar from the output of "remind -pp"
 
-Usage: remind -pp ... | rem2html [options]
+Usage: remind -pp [remind_options] file | rem2html [options]
 
 Options:
 
diff --git a/rem2pdf/bin/rem2pdf.in b/rem2pdf/bin/rem2pdf.in
index a192e22a..9c9722bc 100644
--- a/rem2pdf/bin/rem2pdf.in
+++ b/rem2pdf/bin/rem2pdf.in
@@ -336,10 +336,10 @@ rem2pdf - draw a PDF, SVG or PostScript calendar from Remind output
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-    remind -pp [options] file | rem2pdf [options] > output.pdf
-    remind -pp [options] file | rem2pdf --svg [options] > output.svg
-    remind -pp [options] file | rem2pdf --ps [options] > output.ps
-    remind -pp [options] file | rem2pdf --eps [options] > output.eps
+    remind -pp [remind_options] file | rem2pdf [options] > output.pdf
+    remind -pp [remind_options] file | rem2pdf --svg [options] > output.svg
+    remind -pp [remind_options] file | rem2pdf --ps [options] > output.ps
+    remind -pp [remind_options] file | rem2pdf --eps [options] > output.eps
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION