diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fbe2b12..8c57de1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ replacement, and each removed path, column or flag.
   `{w} {uppercase(w)}` and `{/person.first} {/person.last}` are two draws each, which
   `{p as q}{q.a} {q.b}` and `{/person as n}{n.first} {n.last}` make one.
   `{/misc.territory as t}` binds one row of `misc.territory` to `t` and prints nothing;
-  `{t}`, `{t.capital}` and `{lowercase(t.name)}` read that one row. A name binds a
-  reference, a sibling field or a path into one, lives in the category binding it, and
-  picks again on every iteration of a `repeat` binding it. A struct's tags share its
+  `{t}`, `{t.capital}` and `{lowercase(t.name)}` read that one row. `{x as n}` binds a
+  reference, a sibling field or a path into one; a name lives in the category binding it,
+  and picks again on every iteration of a `repeat` binding it. A struct's tags share its
   names, `{/sv_SE.person as p}{p.first}` beside `{p.sex}`. A name is a `{calc()}`
   operand: `{/misc.coordinate.lat as lat}{calc(lat * 60)}`. What `New` refuses is listed
   under [Names](README.md#names).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d7b252e..053a2ac 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -345,8 +345,8 @@ naming a kind that holds it. The tags are a record's columns, so they share its
 describe one person, while two path tags into `sv_SE.person` are two draws. The fields an
 embedded struct promotes are columns of the same record; a named struct field, or a
 pointer to one, fills from its own tags as a record of its own, so its names and picks are
-its own. `fake:"-"` leaves a struct field, embedded or named, or a pointer to one, unfilled. Untagged fields keep
-their values, and so does a pointer back to a struct already being filled; a type
+its own. `fake:"-"` leaves a struct field, embedded or named, or a pointer to one, unfilled.
+Untagged fields keep their values, and so does a pointer back to a struct already being filled; a type
 whose fields reach more than 1024 structs is refused, naming `fake:"-"` to cut it. The
 first call for a type compiles its tags and reports what they get wrong, with the same
 error on every later call; a `datatype` in a tag names the Go type that already sets it.
@@ -756,7 +756,8 @@ Refused at `New`, each error naming what to write instead:
 - a name bound twice outside any `repeat`, twice in one `repeat`, or both inside a `repeat`
   and outside it;
 - a name that is a field or an option;
-- a binding of anything but a reference or a path into a field of the template binding it;
+- a binding of anything but a reference, or a field of the template binding it or a path into
+  one;
 - a read of a name inside the field bound to it: read it outside that field;
 - a binding in a choice's item, which every other item would leave unbound;
 - a binding nothing reads, or one read only once, unless that read sits in a `repeat`
diff --git a/docs/decisions.md b/docs/decisions.md
index 3cecbc0..2fec329 100644
--- a/docs/decisions.md
+++ b/docs/decisions.md
@@ -135,13 +135,13 @@ from the one pick a name keeps.
 - `{p.a} {p.b}`, `{w} {uppercase(w)}`, `{/p.first} {/p.last}` and `{/p} {/p}` are two draws
   each, and `{p as q}{q.a} {q.b}` is one. Nothing is kept per format or per render, so the
   only load checks on draws are names, paths through names, cycles and the repeat cap.
-- A name binds a reference, or a field of the template binding it or a path into one, `{place as
-  p}`: an inline template, and a choice of rows inside one category, have no reference to
+- `{x as n}` binds a reference, or a field of the template binding it or a path into one,
+  `{place as p}`: an inline template, and a choice of rows inside one category, have no reference to
   bind, and goal 4.1 holds there too.
 - A name read once is refused where writing what it binds in its place draws the same, and
-  the error names that spelling (goal 5.7): `{/x as n}{n.y}` is `{/x.y}`. A calc reads no reference or
-  path, and a read inside a nested repeat keeps one pick on every line, so neither is
-  refused.
+  the error names that spelling (goal 5.7): `{/x as n}{n.y}` is `{/x.y}`. A calc cannot read
+  a reference or a path, so a calc's one read of a name bound to either is not refused, and
+  neither is a read inside a nested repeat, which keeps one pick on every line.
 
 Valid while goal 5.2 has each `{…}` make a new pick.
 
diff --git a/namefence.go b/namefence.go
index 14d7509..f1aa824 100644
--- a/namefence.go
+++ b/namefence.go
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ func rendersInside(nodes []node, t *template) bool {
 }
 
 // checkUses refuses a binding read once at a spot the bound spelling can stand: that spelling
-// draws the same way without the name. A bound field can stand in only where the reading template
-// reaches the binder through fields. Where the spelling would be a CLI argument or tag of one reference alone,
-// that entry point's own refusal then names the bare path.
+// draws the same way without the name. A bound field can stand in only where the reading
+// template reaches the binder through fields. Where the spelling would be a CLI argument or tag
+// of one reference alone, that entry point's own refusal then names the bare path.
 func (b *nameBinding) checkUses() error {
 	r := b.uses[0]
 	if len(b.uses) > 1 || r.nested {
diff --git a/reference.go b/reference.go
index 62947e0..3c68d69 100644
--- a/reference.go
+++ b/reference.go
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ func (t *template) resolveLink(folder []string, path, category string, root map[
 	return link, nil
 }
 
-// columnRead is a record's column read by a format of that one reference or name read alone,
+// columnRead is a record's column read by a format that only reads one reference or name,
 // which is the column: it takes the column's datatype and null. category and field name it;
 // category is "" for a column of the reading template's own record, which checkColumns reaches
 // on its own.
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ type columnRead struct {
 	column          node
 }
 
-// linkColumnRead sets the record's column t's format reads, where it is one reference or name
-// read alone, once the names are linked.
+// linkColumnRead sets the record's column t's format reads, where the format only reads one
+// reference or name, once the names are linked.
 func linkColumnRead(_ string, t *template) error {
 	ops := t.compiled.ops
 	if t.repeat != 1 || len(ops) != 1 || ops[0].kind != nameRead || len(ops[0].arms) != 1 {