diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f3434b8..aad3e17 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ combatted with strict file size limits, to ensure that your website does not
 end up larger than the major works of Russian literature.  Besides being
 limited to 32 KiB in size, HTML pages are limited to 3 images and HTML tags
 cannot be nested more than 10 levels deep.  This encourages uncluttered and
-quickly rendering layouts.  <audio>, <applet>, <canvas>, <embed>, <iframe>,
-<script> and <video> tags are prohibited (among others).  In other words, your
-web pages will need to be actual documents, not applications, which means they
-have some hope of being usable on older machines or without massively bloated
-browsers.  Third-party images, stylesheets and fonts are not allowed, so your
-users can rest assured that they aren't being tracked indirectly.
+quickly rendering layouts.  ``<audio>``, ``<applet>``, ``<canvas>``, ``<embed>``,
+``<iframe>``, ``<script>`` and ``<video>`` tags are prohibited (among others).
+In other words, your web pages will need to be actual documents, not
+applications, which means they have some hope of being usable on older machines
+or without massively bloated browsers.  Third-party images, stylesheets and
+fonts are not allowed, so your users can rest assured that they aren't being
+tracked indirectly.
 
 This default configuration of Shizaru is not supposed to be a "retro server".
 Shizaru supports HTTPS (in fact, the only thing it will serve over HTTP is a
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ redirct to HTTPS) and HTTP/2, and the default ruleset allows the use of many
 tags introduced in HTML5.  The goal is not to remove the new and keep only the
 old, but to remove the evil and keep only the good.  Old and good may be
 correlated when it comes to the web, but there are exceptions.  The Shizaru
-defaults disallow <blink> and <marquee>, for example.
+defaults disallow ``<blink>`` and ``<marquee>``, for example.
 
 ## Running as non-root