diff --git a/misc/pmw/README b/misc/pmw/README
index 7da89e5b41..873324eb1a 100644
--- a/misc/pmw/README
+++ b/misc/pmw/README
@@ -8,8 +8,5 @@ program translates the input text file into an output postscript file
 of music manuscript, using a special "alphabet" of symbols. A user
 manual in PDF format is provided as part of the package.
 
-Because it uses postscript, pmw requires ghostscript to be installed
-on your system.
-
 An archived homepage can be viewed here:
 https://web.archive.org/web/20190331211148/http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ph10/pmw.html