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 The OSMesa interface may be used with the gallium software renderers:
 
 #. llvmpipe - this is the high-performance Gallium LLVM driver
-#. softpipe - this it the reference Gallium software driver
+#. softpipe - this is the reference Gallium software driver
 
 There are several examples of OSMesa in the mesa/demos repository.