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 novelWriter is a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many
 smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavour of markdown that supports a meta data syntax
-for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files. The idea is to have a simple text editor
-which allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, built on a plain text file project
-repository for robustness.
+for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files. It's designed to be a simple text editor
+which allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, built on plain text files for
+robustness.
 
 The plain text storage is suitable for version control software, and also well suited for file
 synchronisation tools. The core project structure is stored in a project XML file. Other meta data