very obvious now, but I banged my head for hours

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / ikiwiki / directive / meta.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
index 7a7b0fa199444076a2cc08b74d2bb7252f2f4c56..d66e26fc4e493574a9158f57a49b504beba07021 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Enter the metadata as follows:
        \[[!meta field="value" param="value" param="value"]]
 
 The first form sets a given field to a given value, while the second form
-also specifies some additional sub-parameters.
+also specifies some additional sub-parameters. You can have only one field
+per `meta` directive, use more directives if you want to specify more fields.
 
 The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
 a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.
@@ -23,6 +24,13 @@ Supported fields:
   be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things
   differently in this case.
 
+  An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
+  [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(title)`:
+
+       \[[!meta title="The Beatles" sortas="Beatles, The"]]
+
+       \[[!meta title="David Bowie" sortas="Bowie, David"]]
+
 * license
 
   Specifies a license for the page, for example, "GPL". Can contain
@@ -37,14 +45,19 @@ Supported fields:
 
   Specifies the author of a page.
 
+  An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
+  [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(author)`:
+
+       \[[!meta author="Joey Hess" sortas="Hess, Joey"]]
+
 * authorurl
 
   Specifies an url for the author of a page.
 
 * description
 
-  Specifies a "description" of the page. You could use this to provide
-  a summary, for example, to be picked up by the [[map]] directive.
+  Specifies a short description for the page. This will be put in
+  the html header, and can also be displayed by eg, the [[map]] directive.
 
 * permalink
 
@@ -68,19 +81,21 @@ Supported fields:
 * openid
 
   Adds html <link> tags to perform OpenID delegation to an external
-  OpenID server (for `openid` and `openid2`). An optional `xrds-location`
+  OpenID server. This lets you use an ikiwiki page as your OpenID.
+
+  By default this will delegate for both `openid` and `openid2`. To only
+  delegate for one, add a parameter such as `delegate=openid`.
+
+  An optional `xrds-location`
   parameter lets you specify the location of any [eXtensible Resource
   DescriptorS](http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/05/using_xrds.shtml).
 
-  This lets you use an ikiwiki page as your OpenID. Example:
+  Example:
 
-       \\[[!meta openid="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/"
+       \[[!meta openid="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/"
        server="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
        xrds-location="http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=joeyh.myopenid.com""]]
 
-  By default this will delegate for both `openid` and `openid2`. To only
-  delegate for one, add a parameter such as `delegate=openid`.
-
 * link
 
   Specifies a link to another page. This can be used as a way to make the