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@@ -8,3 +8,27 @@ The goal in this book, *Autocento of the breakfast table*, is to explore the
 workings of revision and recursion through words, both in the head and on
 paper.  It's a hypertextual imagining of how things could have been, in all
 of their possibilities.
+
+# Part II: Enough of that high-falutin bullshit; down to brass tax
+## A.K.A.  Using Pandoc to compile them pages, neff
+
+This project uses John MacFarlane's amazing, etc. [pandoc][] for the fun,
+HTML-writing stuff.  Use the `compile.sh` script to compile the stuff down.
+
+*Note: you're on Windows right now, so make sure and type `bash compile.sh` to
+run the program.*
+
+At the top of each file, there should be a YAML block that looks something
+like this:
+
+````yaml
+---
+title: 'Title of poem or whatever'
+subtitle: 'Subtitle, if it exists'
+epigraph: 'Include epigraph here, if it exists'
+epigraph-credit: 'Who said the epigraph or wrote it or whatever'
+project: 'Original project here'
+...
+````
+
+[pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/