diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 85e7116..3234142 100644
--- a/README.md
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@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ You’re not alone: I also wish the code were documented.
 `cfg` has no comments, but let’s pretend we had `#` comments.
 
 ```
-# lists start with a name, then an indent, and then a value
+# lists start with a name, then an indent, then a hyphen,
+# and then a value
 my_list
   -"value"
   -12
@@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ my_section
   my_second_numer 23.0
 ```
 
-Keys cannot contain spaces. This is all.
+Keys cannot contain spaces. Indents are always two spaces. There is no space
+between the hyphen and the value and an array. This is all.
 
 It is a simple format, some might think it is too simple. It is, however,
 possible, to write a simple, fast implementation in a few hundred lines of C