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-md2roff is a Markdown to roff/html converted.  It can be used to
-generate simple man pages from project README files.  The output is
-a manpage in man(7) format as well as a HTML document.
+md2roff is a Markdown to roff/html converter.  It can be used to
+generate simple man pages from Markdown-formatted project README
+files.  The program produces a man page in man(7) format and an
+HTML document as output.