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 # Contributing to Rich
 
-This project welcomes contributions in the form of Pull Requests. 
-For clear bug-fixes / typos etc. just submit a PR. 
-For new features or if there is any doubt in how to fix a bug, you might want 
-to open an issue prior to starting work, or email willmcgugan+rich@gmail.com 
+This project welcomes contributions in the form of Pull Requests.
+For clear bug-fixes / typos etc. just submit a PR.
+For new features or if there is any doubt in how to fix a bug, you might want
+to open an issue prior to starting work, or email willmcgugan+rich@gmail.com
 to discuss it first.
 
 ## Development Environment
 
-Rich uses [poetry](https://python-poetry.org/docs/) for packaging and 
-dependency management. To start developing with Rich, either install the 
-recommended way (using curl) as described in their 
-[docs](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation), or simply run:
+Rich uses [poetry](https://python-poetry.org/docs/) for packaging and
+dependency management. To start developing with Rich, install Poetry
+using the [recommended method](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation) or run:
 
 ```
 pip install poetry
 ```
 
-Once Poetry is installed, run
+Once Poetry is installed, install the dependencies with the following command:
 
 ```
 poetry install
 ```
 
-To install dependencies
-
 ### Tests
 
 Run tests with the following command:
@@ -43,7 +40,7 @@ New code should ideally have tests and not break existing tests.
 
 ### Type Checking
 
-Rich uses type annotations throughout, and `mypy` to do the checking. 
+Rich uses type annotations throughout, and `mypy` to do the checking.
 Run the following to type check Rich:
 
 ```
@@ -64,4 +61,4 @@ Rich uses [`black`](https://github.com/psf/black) for code formatting.
 I recommend setting up black in your editor to format on save.
 
 To run black from the command line, use `make format-check` to check your formatting,
-and use `make format` to format and write to the files.
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+and use `make format` to format and write to the files.