diff --git a/src/GAP.jl b/src/GAP.jl
index f40009e0..798bd1ec 100644
--- a/src/GAP.jl
+++ b/src/GAP.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@doc Markdown.doc"""
+"""
   GAP.jl is the Julia interface to the GAP-System.
 
   For more information about GAP see https://www.gap-system.org/
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ include("setup.jl")
 
 import Base: length, finalize
 import Libdl
-import Markdown
 import Random
 
 # setup the initial sysinfo dictionary; we'll update this later in __init__
diff --git a/src/help.jl b/src/help.jl
index ccd34fc5..e0e2e5d2 100644
--- a/src/help.jl
+++ b/src/help.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ## enable access to GAP help system from Julia
 
+import Markdown
 using REPL
 
 function gap_help_string(topic::String, onlyexact::Bool = false,