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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The M4 package contains the M4 processor
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Description</title>
+
+<para>
+M4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output expanding macros as it
+goes. Macros are either builtin or user-defined and can take any number
+of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion m4 has builtin functions
+for including named files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic,
+manipulating text in various ways, recursion, etc. M4 can be used either
+as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+