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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ 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,