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 ## The universal markup converter
 
-Pandoc is a \[Haskell\] library for converting from one markup format to
-another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can convert
-*from*
+Pandoc is a [Haskell](http://haskell.org) library for converting from
+one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this
+library. It can convert *from*
 
 <div id="input-formats">
 
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 any kind.  (See COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)
 
 [GPL]: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html "GNU General Public License"
+[Haskell]: http://haskell.org