diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4c9c5d3..8361f9a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 3.20)
 
 SET(name g3kb-switch)
 SET(HOMEPAGE_URL https://github.com/lyokha/g3kb-switch)
+STRING(TIMESTAMP BUILD_DATE "%d %B %Y")
 # get version from git tag in github action
 STRING(REGEX MATCH [[[0-9](\.[0-9])*]] VERSION "$ENV{GITHUB_REF_NAME}")
 IF(NOT VERSION)
@@ -26,7 +27,6 @@ FIND_PACKAGE(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
 PKG_SEARCH_MODULE(GIO REQUIRED gio-2.0)
 
 CONFIGURE_FILE(config.h.in config.h)
-CONFIGURE_FILE(docs/metadata.json.in docs/metadata.json)
 
 SET(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
 
@@ -126,17 +126,19 @@ ENDIF()
 OPTION(G3KBSWITCH_INSTALL_MAN_PAGE "Install man documentation" ON)
 IF(G3KBSWITCH_INSTALL_MAN_PAGE)
     SET(man_page ${name}.1)
+    CONFIGURE_FILE(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/${man_page}.in
+                   ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/docs/${man_page})
     FIND_PROGRAM(GZIP gzip)
-    IF (GZIP)
+    IF(GZIP)
         SET(man_gz ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${man_page}.gz)
         ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(man-${name} ALL DEPENDS ${man_gz})
         ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
             OUTPUT ${man_gz}
             COMMAND ${GZIP} -9 --no-name --to-stdout "${man_page}" >"${man_gz}"
-            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/docs)
+            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/docs)
         SET(man_page ${man_gz})
     ELSE()
-        SET(man_page ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/${man_page})
+        SET(man_page ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/docs/${man_page})
     ENDIF()
     INSTALL(FILES ${man_page}
             DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR}/man1)
@@ -151,3 +153,4 @@ SET(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_URL ${HOMEPAGE_URL})
 INCLUDE(CPack)
 SET(CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE")
 SET(CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_README "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/README.md")
+
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index c400612..5ee621a 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -1,17 +1,6 @@
-The man page *g3kb-switch.1* was generated by Pandoc 3.1.9.
+The template for the man page *g3kb-switch.1.in* was generated by Pandoc 3.1.9.
 
 ```ShellSession
-$ pandoc g3kb-switch.1.md -s -t man -M "date=$(LANG=C date +'%d %B %Y')" \
-  --metadata-file ../build/docs/metadata.json |
-  sed 's/\[CR\]/[CB]/g' > g3kb-switch.1
+$ pandoc g3kb-switch.1.md -s -t man | sed 's/\[CR\]/[CB]/g' > g3kb-switch.1.in
 ```
 
-The metadata file *../build/docs/metadata.json* was preliminary generated by
-running
-
-```ShellSession
-$ cmake -Bbuild
-```
-
-in the top directory of the project.
-
diff --git a/docs/g3kb-switch.1 b/docs/g3kb-switch.1.in
similarity index 90%
rename from docs/g3kb-switch.1
rename to docs/g3kb-switch.1.in
index 174ba1b..87fa738 100644
--- a/docs/g3kb-switch.1
+++ b/docs/g3kb-switch.1.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\" Automatically generated by Pandoc 3.1.9
 .\"
-.TH "G3KB-SWITCH" "1" "06 December 2023" "g3kb-switch 1.4" "User Manual"
+.TH "G3KB-SWITCH" "1" "${BUILD_DATE}" "${PROJECT_NAME} ${PROJECT_VERSION}" "User Manual"
 .SH NAME
 \f[B]g3kb-switch\f[R] - CLI keyboard layout switcher for Gnome 3 and 4x.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ Details are documented at \c
 .UR https://github.com/lyokha/vim-xkbswitch
 .UE \c
 \&.
-.SH AUTHOR
-Written by Alexey Radkov.
+.SH AUTHORS
+Written by Alexey Radkov and Freed-Wu.
 .SH REPORTING BUGS
 Report bugs to \c
 .UR https://github.com/lyokha/g3kb-switch/issues
diff --git a/docs/g3kb-switch.1.md b/docs/g3kb-switch.1.md
index 86efc88..bdf72e5 100644
--- a/docs/g3kb-switch.1.md
+++ b/docs/g3kb-switch.1.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+---
+title: G3KB-SWITCH
+section: 1
+header: User Manual
+footer: ${PROJECT_NAME} ${PROJECT_VERSION}
+date: ${BUILD_DATE}
+...
+
 # NAME
 **g3kb-switch** - CLI keyboard layout switcher for Gnome 3 and 4x.
 
@@ -39,8 +47,8 @@ layouts in Vim and Neovim when entering and leaving Insert mode via Vim plugin
 *vim-xkbswitch*. Details are documented at
 <https://github.com/lyokha/vim-xkbswitch>.
 
-# AUTHOR
-Written by Alexey Radkov.
+# AUTHORS
+Written by Alexey Radkov and Freed-Wu.
 
 # REPORTING BUGS
 Report bugs to <https://github.com/lyokha/g3kb-switch/issues>.
diff --git a/docs/metadata.json.in b/docs/metadata.json.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 26d8e73..0000000
--- a/docs/metadata.json.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "title": "G3KB-SWITCH",
-    "section": "1",
-    "header": "User Manual",
-    "footer": "g3kb-switch @PROJECT_VERSION@"
-}
-