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-Bower only recognizes versions that follow the (semver)[http://semver.org/] specification.
+Bower only recognizes versions that follow the [semver](http://semver.org/) specification.
 There should only be at most one file per file type in the `main` list. So only one `.js` or `.css`.
 
 ### Installing dependencies