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 ## Download
 
-As well as downloading from this site, you can download PCRE2 or the older,
-unmaintained PCRE1 library from an *unofficial* mirror at SourceForge:
-
-https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/
+As well as downloading from the 
+[GitHub site](https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2), you can download PCRE2 
+or the older, unmaintained PCRE1 library from an 
+[*unofficial* mirror](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/) at SourceForge.
 
 You can check out the PCRE2 source code via Git or Subversion:
 
@@ -26,36 +26,31 @@ You can check out the PCRE2 source code via Git or Subversion:
 ## Contributed Ports
 
 If you just need the command-line PCRE2 tools on Windows, precompiled binary
-versions are available here:
-
-http://www.rexegg.com/pcregrep-pcretest.html
+versions are available at this 
+[Rexegg page](http://www.rexegg.com/pcregrep-pcretest.html).
 
 A PCRE2 port for z/OS, a mainframe operating system which uses EBCDIC as its
-default character encoding, can be found here:
-
-http://www.cbttape.org/ (File 939)
+default character encoding, can be found at 
+[http://www.cbttape.org](http://www.cbttape.org/) (File 939).
 
 ## Documentation
 
-You can read the PCRE2 documentation here:
-
-https://philiphazel.github.io/pcre2/doc/html/index.html
+You can read the PCRE2 documentation 
+[here](https://philiphazel.github.io/pcre2/doc/html/index.html).
 
 Comparisons to Perl's regular expression semantics can be found in the
 community authored Wikipedia entry for PCRE.
 
 There is a curated summary of changes for each PCRE release, copies of
 documentation from older releases, and other useful information from the third
-party authored RexEgg PCRE Documentation and Change Log page:
-
-http://www.rexegg.com/pcre-documentation.html
+party authored 
+[RexEgg PCRE Documentation and Change Log page](http://www.rexegg.com/pcre-documentation.html).
 
 ## Contact
 
 To report a problem with the PCRE2 library, or to make a feature request, please
 use the PCRE2 GitHub issues tracker. There is a mailing list for discussion of
  PCRE2 issues and development at pcre2-dev@googlegroups.com, which is where any
-announcements will be made. You can browse the list archives here:
-
-https://groups.google.com/g/pcre2-dev
+announcements will be made. You can browse the 
+[list archives](https://groups.google.com/g/pcre2-dev).