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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ colout(1) -- Color Up Arbitrary Command Ouput
 ## DESCRIPTION
 
 `colout` read lines of text stream on the standard input and output characters 
-matching a given regular expression <PATTERN> in given <COLOR> and <STYLE>.
+matching a given regular expression *PATTERN* in given <COLOR> and *STYLE*.
 
 If groups are specified in the regular expression pattern, only them are taken
 into account, else the whole matching pattern is colored.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ any number between 0 and 255.
 Available styles are: normal, bold, faint, italic, underline, blink, 
 rapid_blink, reverse, conceal.
 
-When not specified, a <COLOR> defaults to _red_ and a <STYLE> defaults to _bold_.
+When not specified, a *COLOR* defaults to _red_ and a *STYLE* defaults to _bold_.
 
 `colout` is released under the GNU Public License v3.
 
@@ -51,29 +51,29 @@ special characters that would be recognize by your shell.
 ## EXAMPLES
 
 * Color in bold red every occurence of the word _color_ in colout sources:
-  cat colout.py | colout color red bold
+  `cat colout.py | colout color red bold`
 
 * Color in bold violet home directories in _/etc/passwd_:
-  colout /home/[a-z]+ 135 < /etc/passwd
+  `colout /home/[a-z]+ 135 < /etc/passwd`
 
 * Color in yellow user/groups id, in bold green name and in bold red home directories in _/etc/passwd_:
-  colout :x:\([0-9]+:[0-9]+\):\([a-z]+\).*\(/home/[a-z]+\) yellow,green,red normal,bold < /etc/passwd
+  `colout :x:\([0-9]+:[0-9]+\):\([a-z]+\).*\(/home/[a-z]+\) yellow,green,red normal,bold < /etc/passwd`
 
 * Color in yellow file permissions with read rights for everyone:
-  ls -l | colout .\(r.-\){3} yellow normal
+  `ls -l | colout .\(r.-\){3} yellow normal`
 
 * Color in green read permission, in bold red write and execution ones:
-  ls -l | colout \(r\)\(w*\)\(x*\) green,red normal,bold
+  `ls -l | colout \(r\)\(w*\)\(x*\) green,red normal,bold`
 
 * Color in green comments in colout sources:
-  colout .*\(#.*\)$ green normal < colout.py
-  
+  `colout .*\(#.*\)$ green normal < colout.py`
+
 * Color in light green comments in non-empty colout sources, with the sharp in bold green:
-  grep -v ^\\s*$ colout.py | colout .*\(#\)\(.*\)$ green,119 bold,normal
+  `grep -v ^\\s*$ colout.py | colout .*\(#\)\(.*\)$ green,119 bold,normal`
 
 * Color in bold green every numbers and in bold red the words _error_ in make output:
-  make 2>&1 | colout [0-9]+ green normal | colout error
+  `make 2>&1 | colout [0-9]+ green normal | colout error`
 
 * Color a make output, line numbers in yellow, errors in bold red, warning in magenta, pragma in green and C++ file base names in cyan:
-  make 2>&1 | colout :\([0-9]+\):[0-9]* yellow normal | colout error | colout warning magenta | colout pragma green normal | colout /\(\\w+\)*\.\(h\|cpp\) cyan normal
+  `make 2>&1 | colout :\([0-9]+\):[0-9]* yellow normal | colout error | colout warning magenta | colout pragma green normal | colout /\(\\w+\)*\.\(h\|cpp\) cyan normal`