diff --git a/aio/transforms/rho-package/index.js b/aio/transforms/rho-package/index.js
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--- a/aio/transforms/rho-package/index.js
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-var Package = require('dgeni').Package;
-
-/**
- * @dgPackage rho
- * @description Overrides the renderMarkdown service with an implementation based on Rho
- */
-module.exports = new Package('rho', ['nunjucks'])
-
-                     .factory(require('./services/renderMarkdown'));
diff --git a/aio/transforms/rho-package/services/renderMarkdown.js b/aio/transforms/rho-package/services/renderMarkdown.js
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--- a/aio/transforms/rho-package/services/renderMarkdown.js
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-const rho = require('rho');
-const { prettyPrint } = require('html');
-
-const defaultUnformattedTags = [
-  'a', 'span', 'bdo', 'em', 'strong', 'dfn', 'code', 'samp', 'kbd', 'var', 'cite', 'abbr', 'acronym',
-  'q', 'sub', 'sup', 'tt', 'i', 'b', 'big', 'small', 'u', 's', 'strike', 'font', 'ins', 'del', 'pre',
-  'address', 'dt', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'];
-
-/**
- * @dgService renderMarkdown
- * @description
- * Render the markdown in the given string as HTML.
- */
-module.exports = function renderMarkdown() {
-
-
-  // TODO(petebd): We might want to remove the leading whitespace from the code
-  // block before it gets to the markdown code render function
-
-  // We need to teach Rho about inline tags so that it doesn't try to process
-  // the inside of the tag
-  const emitNormal = rho.InlineCompiler.prototype.emitNormal;
-  rho.InlineCompiler.prototype.emitNormal = function(walk) {
-    if (this.emitText(walk)) return;
-    if (tryDgeniInlineTag(this, walk)) return;
-    emitNormal.call(this, walk);
-  };
-
-  rho.BlockCompiler.prototype.emitBlock = function(walk) {
-    walk.skipBlankLines();
-    this.countBlockIndent(walk);
-    if (this.tryUnorderedList(walk)) return;
-    if (this.tryOrderedList(walk)) return;
-    if (this.tryDefinitionList(walk)) return;
-    if (this.tryHeading(walk)) return;
-    if (this.tryCodeBlock(walk)) return;
-    if (this.tryDiv(walk)) return;
-    if (this.tryHtml(walk)) return;
-    if (tryDgeniInlineTag(this, walk, true)) return;
-    if (this.tryHrTable(walk)) return;
-    this.emitParagraph(walk);
-  };
-
-  function tryDgeniInlineTag(compiler, walk, isBlock) {
-    if (!walk.at('{@')) return false;
-
-    const startIdx = walk.position;
-    var endIdx = walk.indexOf('}');
-
-    if (endIdx === null) return false;
-
-    if (isBlock) compiler.out.push('<div>');
-    compiler.out.push(walk.substring(startIdx, endIdx + 1));
-    if (isBlock) compiler.out.push('</div>\n');
-
-    walk.startFrom(endIdx + 2);
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  renderMarkdownImpl.unformattedTags = [];
-
-  return renderMarkdownImpl;
-
-  function renderMarkdownImpl(content) {
-    const rawHtml = new rho.BlockCompiler(rho.options).toHtml(content);
-    return prettyPrint(rawHtml, { indent_size: 2, max_char: 0, unformatted: [...defaultUnformattedTags, ...renderMarkdownImpl.unformattedTags]});
-  }
-};
diff --git a/aio/transforms/rho-package/services/renderMarkdown.spec.js b/aio/transforms/rho-package/services/renderMarkdown.spec.js
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--- a/aio/transforms/rho-package/services/renderMarkdown.spec.js
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-const renderMarkdownFactory = require('./renderMarkdown');
-
-describe('rho: renderMarkdown service', () => {
-  let renderMarkdown;
-  beforeEach(() => {
-    renderMarkdown = renderMarkdownFactory();
-  });
-
-  it('should convert markdown to HTML', () => {
-    const content = '# heading 1\n' +
-        '\n' +
-        'A paragraph with **bold** and _italic_.\n' +
-        '\n' +
-        '* List item 1\n' +
-        '* List item 2';
-    const output = renderMarkdown(content);
-
-    expect(output).toEqual(
-        '<h1>heading 1</h1>\n' +
-        '<p>A paragraph with <strong>bold</strong> and <em>italic</em>.</p>\n' +
-        '<ul>\n' +
-        '  <li>List item 1</li>\n' +
-        '  <li>List item 2</li>\n' +
-        '</ul>');
-  });
-
-  it('should not process markdown inside inline tags', () => {
-    const content = '# heading {@link some_url_path}';
-    const output = renderMarkdown(content);
-    expect(output).toEqual('<h1>heading {@link some_url_path}</h1>');
-  });
-
-  it('should not put block level inline tags inside paragraphs', () => {
-    const content = 'A paragraph.\n' +
-        '\n' +
-        '{@example blah **blah** blah }\n' +
-        '\n' +
-        'Another paragraph';
-    const output = renderMarkdown(content);
-    expect(output).toEqual(
-        '<p>A paragraph.</p>\n' +
-        '<div>{@example blah **blah** blah }</div>\n' +
-        '<p>Another paragraph</p>');
-  });
-
-  it('should not format the contents of tags marked as unformatted ', () => {
-    renderMarkdown.unformattedTags = ['code-example'];
-    const content = '<code-example>\n  abc\n  def\n</code-example>';
-    const output = renderMarkdown(content);
-    expect(output).toEqual('<code-example>\n  abc\n  def\n</code-example>');
-  });
-
-  it('should not remove spaces after anchor tags', () => {
-    var input =
-        'A aa aaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa\n' +
-        '[foo](path/to/foo) bbb.';
-    var output =
-        '<p>' +
-        'A aa aaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa\n' +
-        '<a href="path/to/foo">foo</a> bbb.' +
-        '</p>';
-
-    expect(renderMarkdown(input)).toEqual(output);
-  });
-});