diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 228d0b79e..470f0c97c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- consolidating dev docs from wiki, https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/920 WIP -->
-$toc$
+$TOC$
 
 <style>
 /* table styles */
diff --git a/doc/common.m4 b/doc/common.m4
index 871a7cbf8..6f6056a0b 100644
--- a/doc/common.m4
+++ b/doc/common.m4
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This doc is for version **_version_** (dev).
 m4_dnl
 m4_dnl Insert a table of contents marker, which doc build scripts will populate.
 m4_define({{_toc_}},{{
-\$toc\$
+\$TOC\$
 }})m4_dnl
 m4_dnl
 m4_dnl Helpers for generating table markup.
diff --git a/doc/manpage.html b/doc/manpage.html
index fc0909cf5..7a69d41db 100644
--- a/doc/manpage.html
+++ b/doc/manpage.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $include-before$
 $endfor$
 -->
 
-<!-- $toc$ -->
+<!-- $TOC$ -->
 
 $body$
 
diff --git a/tools/pandoc-drop-toc.lua b/tools/pandoc-drop-toc.lua
index 48cd535a2..6f0977cdf 100644
--- a/tools/pandoc-drop-toc.lua
+++ b/tools/pandoc-drop-toc.lua
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 function Para(p)
     if not  p.content[1]                  then return p end
     if not (p.content[1].t    == "Str")   then return p end
-    if not (p.content[1].text == "$toc$") then return p end
+    if not (p.content[1].text == "$TOC$") then return p end
     return pandoc.Null()
 end