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+Welcome!
+========
+
+This is the home of Pygments.  It is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for
+use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify
+source code.  Highlights are:
+
+* a wide range of over 300 languages and other text formats is supported
+* special attention is paid to details that increase highlighting quality
+* support for new languages and formats are added easily; most languages use a
+  simple regex-based lexing mechanism
+* a number of output formats is available, among them HTML, RTF, LaTeX and ANSI
+  sequences
+* it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library
+* ... and it highlights even Perl 6!
+
+Read more in the :doc:`FAQ list <faq>` or the :doc:`documentation <docs/index>`,
+or `download the latest release <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>`_.
+
+.. _contribute:
+
+Contribute
+----------
+
+Like every open-source project, we are always looking for volunteers to help us
+with programming. Python knowledge is required, but don't fear: Python is a very
+clear and easy to learn language.
+
+Development takes place on `Bitbucket
+<https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main>`_, where the Mercurial
+repository, tickets and pull requests can be viewed.
+
+Our primary communication instrument is the IRC channel **#pocoo** on the
+Freenode network. To join it, let your IRC client connect to
+``irc.freenode.net`` and do ``/join #pocoo``.
+
+If you found a bug, just open a ticket in the Bitbucket tracker. Be sure to log
+in to be notified when the issue is fixed -- development is not fast-paced as
+the library is quite stable.  You can also send an e-mail to the developers, see
+below.
+
+The authors
+-----------
+
+Pygments is maintained by **Georg Brandl**, e-mail address *georg*\ *@*\ *python.org*.
+
+Many lexers and fixes have been contributed by **Armin Ronacher**, the rest of
+the `Pocoo <http://dev.pocoo.org/>`_ team and **Tim Hatch**.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :hidden:
+
+   docs/index