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title: "Introduction"
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# Introduction {#introduction}

This is the documentation rendering tool for TYPO3 projects. It is based on
[phpDocumentor/guides](https://github.com/phpDocumentor/guides) and can be used as a drop-in replacement for Sphinx.
The tool is used by the automated documentation rendering system of the
TYPO3 project. And can be used by documentation authors to validate their
documentation.

> [!NOTE]
> This tool is still in development, there will be bugs and missing features.
> If you are looking for the current way to render documentation head over to
> [How to document](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/docs-how-to-document/main/en-us/Index.html#start).