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 ## Getting started
 
-The guidelines themselves are found at [CppCoreGuidelines](CppCoreGuidelines.md). There is also [a version formatted for browsing] (http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines) that is manually integrated and thus slightly older than the version in the master branch.
+The guidelines themselves are found at [CppCoreGuidelines](CppCoreGuidelines.md). The document is in GH-flavored MarkDown. It is intentionally kept simple, mostly in ASCII, to allow automatic post-processing such as language translation and reformatting. The editors maintain one
+[version formatted for browsing](http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines). Note that it manually integrated and can be slightly older than the version in the master branch.
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+The Guidelines are a constantly evolving document without a strict "release" cadence. Bjarne Stroustrop periodically reviews the document and increments the version number in the introduction. [Checkins that increment the version number](https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/releases) are tagged in git. 
 
 Many of the guidelines make use of the header-only Guideline Support Library. One implementation is available at [GSL: Guideline Support Library](https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL).