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-* Introduction:
-  =============
+Introduction
+------------
 
 JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. 
 It can represent integer, real number, string, an ordered sequence of 
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ making it a convenient format to store user input files.
 
 Unserialization parsing is user friendly and provides precise error reports.
 
-* Using json-cpp in your project:
-  ===============================
+Using json-cpp in your project
+------------------------------
 
 The recommended approach to integrate json-cpp in your project is to
 build the the amalgamated source (a single .cpp) with your own build
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ json-cpp headers should be included as follow:
 If json-cpp was build as a dynamic library on Windows, then your project
 need to define macro "JSON_DLL" to JSON_API should import exported symbols.
 
-* Building/Testing with new CMake build system:
-  =============================================
+Building/Testing with new CMake build system
+--------------------------------------------
   
 CMake is a C++ Makefiles/Solution generator that can be downloaded from:
   http://www.cmake.org
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ Running "cmake -h" will display the list of available generators (passed as -G o
 By default CMake hides compilation command-line. This can be modified by specifying:
 -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=true when generating makefiles.
 
-* Building/Testing with the legacy build system based on SCons:
-  =============================================================
+Building/Testing with the legacy build system based on SCons
+------------------------------------------------------------
 
 JsonCpp uses Scons (http://www.scons.org) as a build system. Scons requires
 python to be installed (http://www.python.org).
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ to do so.
 and TARGET may be:
 	check: build library and run unit tests.
     
-* Running the test manually:
-  ==========================
+Running the test manually
+-------------------------
 
 Notes that test can be run by scons using the 'check' target (see above).
 
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ You can run the tests using valgrind:
 python rununittests.py --valgrind "path to test_lib_json.exe"
 
 
-* Building the documentation:
-  ===========================
+Building the documentation
+--------------------------
 
 Run the python script doxybuild.py from the top directory:
 
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ Notes that the documentation is also available for download as a tarball.
 The documentation of the latest release is available online at:
 http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/
 
-* Generating amalgamated source and header
-  ========================================
+Generating amalgamated source and header
+----------------------------------------
 
 JsonCpp is provided with a script to generate a single header and a single
 source file to ease inclusion in an existing project.
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ The amalgamated sources are generated by concatenating JsonCpp source in the
 correct order and defining macro JSON_IS_AMALGAMATION to prevent inclusion
 of other headers.
 
-* Adding a reader/writer test:
-  ============================
+Adding a reader/writer test
+---------------------------
 
 To add a test, you need to create two files in test/data:
 - a TESTNAME.json file, that contains the input document in JSON format.
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ See test_complex_01.json and test_complex_01.expected to better understand
 element path.
 
 
-* Understanding reader/writer test output:
-  ========================================
+Understanding reader/writer test output
+---------------------------------------
 
 When a test is run, output files are generated aside the input test files. 
 Below is a short description of the content of each file:
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ Below is a short description of the content of each file:
 test_complex_01.process-output: jsontest.exe output, typically useful to
     understand parsing error.
 
-* License
-  =======
+License
+-------
   
 See file LICENSE for details. Basically JsonCpp is licensed under 
 MIT license, or public domain if desired and recognized in your jurisdiction.