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 DFHack is a Dwarf Fortress memory access library, distributed with scripts
 and plugins implementing a wide variety of useful functions and tools.
 
 The full documentation [is available online here](https://dfhack.readthedocs.org),
 from the README.html page in the DFHack distribution, or as raw text in the `./docs` folder.
-If you're an end-user, modder, or interested in contributing to DFHack - 
+If you're an end-user, modder, or interested in contributing to DFHack -
 go read those docs.
 
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