-under the user's home directory, and has the default name of Mail/.
-After \fIinstall\-mh\fR has written the initial \&.mh\(ruprofile for
-the user, control returns to the original \fInmh\fR program.
-
-As with all \fInmh\fR commands, \fIinstall\-mh\fR first consults the
-\fB$HOME\fR environment variable to determine the user's home directory.
-If \fB$HOME\fR is not set, then the \fI/etc/passwd\fR file is consulted.
+under the user's home directory, and has the default name of
+\fI``Mail''\fP.
+.B Install\-mh
+writes an initial
+.I \&.mh\(ruprofile
+for the user.
+.PP
+As with all
+.B nmh
+commands,
+.B install\-mh
+first checks for the existence of the \fB$MH\fP environment variable
+since that gives the profile path if set.
+If it isn't set, the
+.B $HOME
+environment variable is consulted to determine the user's home directory.
+If
+.B $HOME
+is not set, then the
+.I /etc/passwd
+file is consulted.
+.PP
+When creating the users initial
+.IR \&.mh\(ruprofile ,
+.B install\-mh
+will check for the existence of a global profile
+.IR %etcdir%/mh.profile .
+If found, this will be used to initialize the new
+.IR \&.mh\(ruprofile .
+.PP
+The \fB\-check\fP option can be used to check whether or not nmh has
+been installed.
+This can be used by other programs to determine whether or not nmh has
+been installed without their having to know the internals of nmh.