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 # Welcome to mlpyqtgraph's documentation!
 
 mlpyqtgraph enables [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/)-like plotting with
-|[pyqtgraph](https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph) in existing
-python programs.
+[pyqtgraph](https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph) in existing python programs.
 
 Please refer to the [](introduction) for a brief explanation of mlpyqtgraph or
 read the [getting started](getting_started) to try mlpyqtgraph out right away.