diff --git a/wcclrun/main.cpp b/wcclrun/main.cpp
index 0281f0b9d86d332fa60d1b334498c57aa3a52d78..4dacbd070ea47a554ca78ffd87dafaa520f15fbe 100644
--- a/wcclrun/main.cpp
+++ b/wcclrun/main.cpp
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ void Runner::do_sentence(const boost::shared_ptr<Corpus2::Sentence>& sentence)
 
 	streamsave sv(std::cout);
 
-	if (1) { //header
+	if (output_header) {
 		outputs.resize(outputs.size() + 1);
 		std::vector< UnicodeString >& out = outputs.back();
 		if (global_numbering) {