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+    Rocco is  a quick-and-dirty,  literate-programming-style documentation
+    generator for Ruby. See the Rocco generated docs for more information:
+
+                    <http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/>
+
+
+    Rocco is a port of,  and borrows heavily from, Docco  -- the original
+    quick-and-dirty,   hundred-line-long,   literate-programming-style
+    documentation generator in CoffeeScript:
+
+                    <http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/>
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-# rocco
-
-This is a Ruby port of [Docco](http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/), a
-_quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style
-documentation generator_.
-
-See the [Rocco generated documentation](http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/)
-for more information.