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 ```
 - README.md                % the file you're reading right now
+- .gitignore               % exactly what you expect
 - mla8.tex                 % a general mla formatter for typical written assignments
 - citations.tex            % a citation generator and aggregator for MLA 8th Edition
-- .gitignore               % exactly what you expect
 - sort.py                  % a Python script which sorts sort.tex when called
 - example.tex              % an example of the capability of mla8.tex
--|jones-la                 % all work for AP Lang, taught by Ms Jones
- |- zinsser-annotation.tex % annotations of "On Writing Well" by William Zinnser
- |- zinsser-essay.rough.tex% rough draft of "On Writing Well" essay
- |- zinsser-esssay.tex     % final draft of "On Writing Well" essay
+-|jones-la                 % all work for AP Lang, taught by Ms Jones; see internal README for more info
+-|wroblewski-world         % all work for AP World, taught by Mr Wroblewski; see internal README for more info
 ```
+
+## Compilation
+
+To compile files, run `pdftex --shell-escape /dir/to/file` from this directory.
+
+## MLA8 Formatting Usage
+
+Because files are called from this directory, the relative path is `mla8.tex`, which should be included in TeX documents with `\\input mla8.tex` (this method is used to allow `mla8.tex` to call `citations.tex`).
+
+In-document, mla8.tex provides a few facilities: fonts (`\\large` makes text 14pt, `\\it` italicizes text, `\\bf` bolds text; default 12pt roman Times New Roman), a running page-numbered header which can be enabled on the first page with `\\numberfirstpage`, blockquotes (`\\blockquote{Long quote}`), titles (`\\title{Title}``),and document headers (`\\name{Forename}\\last{Surname}\\teacher{Teacher}\\clas{Class}\\header`, with an optional `\\date{12 July 2019}` to use a different date than today; internal registers like `\\day` can also be set as numbers).
+
+`citations.tex` provides `\\cite`, which has internal sub-commands: `\name{Author Last name for inline citation}{Author Full Name (e.g. Zinsser, William) for citation at end}`, `\\title{Chapter/Paper Title}`, `\\contain{Book or Journal Title}` (note that `\\title` should not be used with full books for citation structure), `\\version` for book version if notable, `\\relnums` for journal issue or volume number, `\\publish` for the publisher, `\\pubdate` for the date of publication, `\\locator` for the page numbers (if chapter) or web address, and `\\pagenum` for inline citation. Internal options are `\\nameinline` which includes the name in the inline citation (or title if no author) and `\\newcitation` to prevent double citing in the final. Python scripts alphabetize the citations.