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 .RB [password]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 zathura is a highly customizable and functional PDF viewer based on the poppler
-rendering library and the gtk+ toolkit. The idea behind zathura is an
-application that provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as
-an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.
+rendering library and the gtk+ toolkit. zathura provides a minimalistic and
+space saving interface, with a focus on keyboard interaction.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B -e xid