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 ## Pelican
 
-The Varia website is made with Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. This means that the website is first generated on a computer (using Python, Jinja and Pelican) into a set of html pages, files and images. This set of documents is then uploaded to the server.
+The Varia website is made with Pelican, a static site generator written in
+Python. This means that the website is first generated on a computer (using
+Python, Jinja and Pelican) into a set of html pages, files and images. This set
+of documents is then uploaded to the server.
 
-One of the things that Pelican uses is *plugins*. They are used to add extra features to the generation process of the website.
+One of the things that Pelican uses is *plugins*. They are used to add extra
+features to the generation process of the website.
 
-In this repository there is a folder called 'plugins' and another one called 'plugins-custom'.
+In this repository there is a folder called 'plugins' and another one called
+'plugins-custom'.
 
-The first one, 'plugins', is linked to the offical collection of plugins from the Pelican project '[pelican-plugins](https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/)'.
+The first one, 'plugins', is linked to the offical collection of plugins from
+the Pelican project '[pelican-plugins](https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/)'.
 
 The other one, 'plugins-custom', consists of plugins that we wrote ourself.
 
-
 ## Clone
 
 To clone both the varia.website and pelican-plugins repository, add the --recurse-submodules option in your git clone command:
@@ -26,7 +31,6 @@ To clone both the varia.website and pelican-plugins repository, add the --recurs
 
 $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 
-
 ## Start
 
 You can make use of the makefile, for example by running the following command to start a python server:
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 Visit the website at localhost:8000
 
-
 ## Update submodules
 
 We are currently using two submodules:
@@ -51,14 +54,12 @@ To update these submodules within your (already) cloned repository, first init t
 
     git submodule update
 
-
 ## Posting Content
 
-We're using Pelican to generate a static website. The main way to add content to the website is by making 'posts' in the folder `content`.
-
-This can be done either locally or via the gitlab interface by creating a new file.
-
-Make sure that each article contains at least the following at the top of the document:
+We're using Pelican to generate a static website. The main way to add content
+to the website is by making 'posts' in the folder `content`. This can be done
+either locally or via the gitlab interface by creating a new file. Make sure
+that each article contains at least the following at the top of the document:
 
     Title: een nieuw initiatief
     Date: 2017-07-07 18:32
@@ -67,4 +68,8 @@ Make sure that each article contains at least the following at the top of the do
     slug: the-name-of-the-html-page
     lang: nl OR en
 
-Articles are written in a markup language called markdown. [Here](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) is an overview of the syntax. You can also use the online editor in gitlab to help you.
+Articles are written in a markup language called markdown.
+
+[Here](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) is an overview of the syntax.
+
+You can also use the online editor in gitlab to help you.