I tried to manage dealing with the wikitext formatting

Ugh - the window gives you this big space to type things & then hassles you when you use >1/2 of it.  Really now, is it so much better to be terse?  Does brevity improve clarity?  No - brevity quashes subtlety.
Wrestling with the wikitext formatting

no docs, no preview, just hey look how cool we are for interpolating your text comments wrong without warning.  yay.
Merge pull request #2 from gregor42/readme-edits

Readme edits - pulled in as an example of how this all stuffy stuff here goes about working