--- a/README.txt	Mon Jan 18 15:33:42 2010 -0500
+++ b/README.txt	Tue Jan 19 09:15:35 2010 -0500
@@ -65,20 +65,45 @@
 
 Formatters:
 
+sort: 
+    determines how to sort the files in a directory; 
+    right now only by case-insensitive alphabetically
+    * reverse : reverse the order of the sorting
+    
 all: 
     only pass files of a certain pattern; 
     the inverse of ignore
     calling all with no arguments means only files with descriptions
     are used
     
-title: splits a description into a title and a description with a
-separator
-describe: substitute the description for the filename
-ignore: ignore files of a certain pattern
+title: 
+    splits a description into a title and a description via a
+    separator in 
+    the description.  The template will now have an additional
+    variable, 
+    'title', per file
+    Arguments:
+    * separator: what separator to use (':' by default)
+    
+describe: 
+    obtain the description from the filename
+    the file extension (if any) will be dropped and
+    spaces will be substituted for underscores
+    
+ignore: 
+    ignore files of a glob patterns.  
+    These files will not be linked to in the template.
+    e.g. /ignore = .* *.pdf  # don't list dotfiles and PDFs
+    
+images: display images with thumbnails
 include: include a file at the top of the body
-css: specify CSS
+css: specify CSS used (whitespace separated list)
 
 Decoupage also makes use of other special intrinsic keywords:
 
-inherit:
-transform: 
+formatters: ordered list of formatters to apply
+
+inherit: inherit configuration from a certain directory (instead of
+the parent
+
+transform: a list of transformers for contenttransformer

--- a/decoupage/formatters.py	Mon Jan 18 15:33:42 2010 -0500
+++ b/decoupage/formatters.py	Tue Jan 19 09:15:35 2010 -0500
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
 
 class Ignore(object):
     """
-    ignore files of a glob patterns.  These files will not be used in the index template.
+    ignore files of a glob patterns.  
+    These files will not be linked to in the template.
     e.g. /ignore = .* *.pdf  # don't list dotfiles and PDFs
     """
     
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@
     """
     determines how to sort the files in a directory; 
     right now only by case-insensitive alphabetically
-    * reverse : reverse the 
+    * reverse : reverse the order of the sorting
     """
     def __init__(self, pattern):
         self.args = [i.strip() for i in pattern.split(',')]
@@ -99,13 +100,19 @@
     
 
 class FilenameDescription(FormatterBase):
-    """substitute the description for the filename"""
+    """
+    obtain the description from the filename
+    the file extension (if any) will be dropped and
+    spaces will be substituted for underscores
+    """
+    # TODO : deal with CamelCaseFilenames
 
     def __call__(self, request, data):
         for f in data['files']:
             if f['description'] is None:
                 description = f['name']
-                description = description.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
+                if '.' in description:
+                    description = description.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
                 decription = description.strip('_')
                 if '_' in description:
                     description = ' '.join([i.title() for i in description.split('_')])
@@ -113,8 +120,14 @@
 
 
 class TitleDescription(FormatterBase):
-    """splits a description into a title and a description with a separator"""
-    
+    """
+    splits a description into a title and a description via a separator in 
+    the description.  The template will now have an additional variable, 
+    'title', per file
+    Arguments:
+    * separator: what separator to use (':' by default)
+    """
+    # XXX what about setting the page title?
 
     defaults = { 'separator': ':' }
         
@@ -129,7 +142,7 @@
                 f['description'] = None
 
 class CSS(object):
-    """specify CSS"""
+    """specify CSS used (whitespace separated list)"""
 
     def __init__(self, arg):
         self.css = arg.split()