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    :target: https://pypistats.org/packages/sphinx
    :alt: Monthly PyPI installs
 
-Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
-documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple
-reStructuredText sources), written by Georg Brandl.  It was originally created
-for the new Python documentation, and has excellent facilities for Python
-project documentation, but C/C++ is supported as well, and more languages are
-planned.
+**Sphinx makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation.**
 
 Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its strengths
 come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its parsing
 and translating suite, the Docutils.
 
-Among its features are the following:
+Features
+========
 
-* Output formats: HTML (including derivative formats such as HTML Help, Epub
-  and Qt Help), plain text, manual pages and LaTeX or direct PDF output
-  using rst2pdf
-* Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links
+* **Output formats**: HTML, PDF, plain text, EPub, TeX, manual pages, and more
+* **Extensive cross-references**: semantic markup and automatic links
   for functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information
-* Hierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic
+* **Hierarchical structure**: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic
   links to siblings, parents and children
-* Automatic indices: general index as well as a module index
-* Code handling: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter
-* Flexible HTML output using the Jinja 2 templating engine
-* Various extensions are available, e.g. for automatic testing of snippets
-  and inclusion of appropriately formatted docstrings
-* Setuptools integration
+* **Automatic indices**: general index as well as a module index
+* **Code highlighting**: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter
+* **Templating**: Flexible HTML output using the Jinja 2 templating engine
+* **Extension ecosystem**: Many extensions are available, for example for
+  automatic function documentation or working with Jupyter notebooks.
+* **Language Support**: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, mathematics, and many other
+  languages through extensions.
 
 For more information, refer to the `the documentation`_.