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Welcome!
========
-This is the home of Pygments. It is a generic syntax highlighter for general use
-in all kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that
-need to prettify source code. Highlights are:
+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 common languages and markup formats is supported
+* 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
+* 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 Brainf*ck!
+* ... and it highlights even Perl 6!
-Read more in the FAQ list or the documentation, or download the latest release.
-
-Though Pygments has not yet won an award, we trust that you will notice it's a top quality product <wink>.
+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:
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ Pygments is maintained by **Georg Brandl**, e-mail address *georg*\ *@*\ *python
Many lexers and fixes have been contributed by **Armin Ronacher**, the rest of
the `Pocoo <http://dev.pocoo.org/>`_ team and **Tim Hatch**.
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