diff --git a/README b/README
index d13802f..2f7c495 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ generated site directories, looking for includes of templates and
 parsing variables.
 
 ## Templates
-To include a template into an HTML file, you would simply add
-`#{<file>}` to the HTML document, where `<file>` is the name of the
+To include a template into an HTML file, you would simply add the line
+`#/<file>` to the HTML document where `<file>` is the name of the
 template file relative to the `_templates/` directory. For example,
 supposing the following file structure:
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ supposing the following file structure:
   /_templates/header.html
 
 In order to include `header.html` into the `index.html` document, one
-would write `#{header.html}` within `index.html`, and likewise could be
+would write `#/header.html` within `index.html`, and likewise could be
 done with `footer.html`.
 
 ## Variables
@@ -52,15 +52,14 @@ be defined in each individual page, and referenced in the templates. All
 variables are strings.
 
 To define a variable in an HTML file, a section must be declared at the
-beginning of the file which starts and ends with `%%%`. Within this
-section, variables are declared and defined by the syntax
-`<name>=<string>`. Note that there is no need to use quotes, as
-everything after the `=` is considered part of the string until the end
-of the line. These variables can then be used in the template files
-which are imported with the syntax `${<name>}`. For example:
+beginning of the file which ends with `%%%`. Within this section,
+variables are declared and defined by the syntax `<name>=<string>`. Note
+that there is no need to use quotes, as everything after the `=` is
+considered part of the string until the end of the line. These variables
+can then be used in the template files which are imported with the
+syntax `${<name>}`. For example:
 
 index.html:
-  %%%
   my-title=Home Page
   %%%
   #{header.html}