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@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@ Enables Julia code and Tikz code to coexist in the same file.
 
 ### JuliaTikz
 
-```julia
-    JuliaTikz(tikzfile,delete=true)
-```
+
+`    JuliaTikz(tikzfile,delete=true)`
+
 
 Extract and run the Julia part of a combined tikz/Julia file.
 
 The boundary between the two is the string
  
-`    \\endinput Julia <name>`
+`    \endinput Julia <name>`
 
 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,
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ deleted  after the run unless the optional argument `delete` is false.
 
 ### printcsv
 
-    printcsv(data::Array{Any}, csv="")
+`    printcsv(data::Array{Any}, csv="")`
 
 Print the array `data` to a file suitable for inclusion in pgfplots.
 The columns of `data` should have a string as first element, and Float64