This seems to be the standard method of formatting an environment
variable section within a man page.
current time:
$(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s)
-.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-.IP NOTMUCH_CONFIG
-Specifies the location of the configuration file to override the default of
-.IR ~/.notmuch-config .
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+The following environment variables can be used to control the
+behavior of notmuch.
+.TP
+.B NOTMUCH_CONFIG
+Specifies the location of the notmuch configuration file. Notmuch will
+use ${HOME}/.notmuch-config if this variable is not set.
.SH SEE ALSO
The emacs-based interface to notmuch (available as
.B notmuch.el