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@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Enables Julia code and Tikz code to coexist in the same file.
 
 ### JuliaTikz
 
+```julia
     JuliaTikz(tikzfile,delete=true)
+```
 
 Extract and run the Julia part of a combined tikz/Julia file.
 
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ The boundary between the two is the string
 
 where `<name>` is the name that will be given to the Julia file 
 (with .jl appended), and also to a variable `name` in the program,
-i.e. name = "<name>".
+i.e. `name = "<name>"`.
 
 The Julia file will be extracted to a temporary directory, which will be 
 deleted  after the run unless the optional argument `delete` is false.