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 # calathea v0.1
 
 calathea is a small C program used to generate static wikis. It takes a
-directory of Common Markdown pages with [[wikilinks]] and renders them to
+directory of Common Markdown pages with `[[wikilinks]]` and renders them to
 HTML. The output is a flat directory of HTML pages where the wikilinks are
 converted to relative links.
 
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 ## Features
 - [x] Rendering wikilinks
 - [ ] Ability to keep track of incoming links
-- [ ] Named wikilinks (i.e. [[link title|actual page]])
+- [ ] Named wikilinks (i.e. `[[link title|actual page]]`)
 
 ## installation
 This tool requires [cmark](https://github.com/commonmark/cmark) to be