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 moderncv -- a modern curriculum vitae class
 
-Moderncv provides a documentclass for typesetting modern curriculum vitaes in
-various styles. It is fairly customizable, allowing you to define your own style
-by changing the colors, the fonts, ... and provides two default styles: classic
-and casual.
+Moderncv provides a documentclass for typesetting curriculum vitaes in various
+styles. It aims to be both straightforward to use and customizable, providing
+four ready-made styles (classic, casual, banking and oldstyle) and allows you to
+define your own style by easily modifying colors, fonts, etc.
 
-The moderncv documentclass need it's input to be formatted with regular
-commands like:
-  \section,
-  \subsection,
-  \maketitle,
-but also defines its own special commands:
-  \cventry,
-  \firstname,
-  \familyname,
-  ...
-Most commands are defined in such a way that the arguments are optional.
-
-Documents can be compiled into dvi, ps or pdf.
+Most commands are defined in such a way that arguments are optional.
 
 Until a decent manual is written, you can always look in the "examples"
-directory for some examples.
+directory for some examples. Documents can be compiled into dvi, ps or pdf.
 
 
 Author: Xavier Danaux <xdanaux@gmail.com>
-Date: 28 May 2007
+Licence: The LaTeX Project Public Li­cense, version 1.3c