Tweak readme and a comment.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index beb3168..b71fdbb 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -177,9 +177,13 @@ everything back to normal afterward::
 
     print term.bold_underline_green_on_yellow('Woo')
 
+This compound notation comes in handy if you want to allow users to customize
+the formatting of your app: just have them pass in a format specifier like
+"bold_green" on the command line, and do a quick ``getattr(term,
+that_option)('Your text')`` when you do your formatting.
+
 I'd be remiss if I didn't credit couleur_, where I probably got the idea for
-all this mashing. It doesn't mix non-color styles in, but we started at the
-same place.
+all this mashing.
 
 .. _couleur: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/couleur
 
diff --git a/blessings/__init__.py b/blessings/__init__.py
index 548d5b8..6b5c188 100644
--- a/blessings/__init__.py
+++ b/blessings/__init__.py
@@ -86,8 +86,9 @@ class Terminal(object):
     # Sugary names for commonly-used capabilities, intended to help avoid trips
     # to the terminfo man page and comments in your code:
     _sugar = dict(
-        # Don't use "on" as an underscore-separated chunk in any of these (e.g.
-        # on_cology or rock_on) so we don't interfere with __getattr__.
+        # Don't use "on" or "bright" as an underscore-separated chunk in any of
+        # these (e.g. on_cology or rock_on) so we don't interfere with
+        # __getattr__.
         save='sc',
         restore='rc',