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@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ Your input content needs to go in a content directory, by default called "conten
 
 linluwi has no theme system and makes no attempt to manage stylesheets. This is left to the user (for example, by putting a .css file in the input directory and adding a stylesheet link to it in your HTML header).
 
-## log posts
+To generate your site, run `fennel linlui.fnl` in the directory where you have the script saved. This should create the public_html and public_gemini directories, which you can then upload to your hosts.
+
+### log posts
 
 Log posts (.gmi files in a `log` subdirectory of the content directory) are handled slightly differently than other input files. In addition to being converted and copied to the output like pages, they have some specific metadata (required in the post file) that is used to generate basic blog and gemlog index pages (see https://itwont.work/log for an example).