--- a/doc/hgignore.5.txt	Thu Jul 16 23:25:26 2009 +0200
+++ b/doc/hgignore.5.txt	Thu Jul 16 23:25:26 2009 +0200
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
 root directory, or any prefix path of that path, is matched against
 any pattern in `.hgignore`.
 
-For example, say we have an an untracked file, `file.c`, at 
-`a/b/file.c` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore `file.c` if
-any pattern in `.hgignore` matches `a/b/file.c`, `a/b` or `a`.
+For example, say we have an an untracked file, ``file.c``, at
+``a/b/file.c`` inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore ``file.c``
+if any pattern in ``.hgignore`` matches ``a/b/file.c``, ``a/b`` or ``a``.
 
 In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a set of
 per-user or global ignore files. See the hgrc(5) man page for details