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 % John MacFarlane
 % August 10, 2006 
 
-`pandoc` is a [Haskell] library for converting files from one markup
-format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can
-read [markdown] and (subsets of) [reStructuredText], [HTML], and [LaTeX],
+`pandoc` is a [Haskell] library for converting from one markup format
+to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read
+[markdown] and (subsets of) [reStructuredText], [HTML], and [LaTeX],
 and it can write [markdown], [reStructuredText], [HTML], [LaTeX], [RTF],
 and [S5] HTML slide shows. `pandoc`'s version of markdown contains some
 enhancements, like footnotes and embedded LaTeX.