# HG changeset patch
# User Chris Cannam
# Date 1600189394 -3600
#      Tue Sep 15 18:03:14 2020 +0100
# Node ID 427e5dc9e564784e0f48e9a0c2ce180a0e7e025b
# Parent  ce1c6950e9d56fe36400da219a8bf5df97dff667
Formatting

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,18 +18,18 @@
 
 ## How to use these classes
 
-Given a base class A with many subclasses B, C, D, etc, all of
-which need to be passed parameters class P in their constructor:
+Given a base class A with many subclasses `B`, `C`, `D`, etc, all of
+which need to be passed parameters class `P` in their constructor:
 
- * in a header associated with A,
+ * in a header associated with `A`,
 
-   * Create a template class ABuilder<T> which inherits from
-     ConcreteThingBuilder<T, A, P>.  This is your class which will
-     be specialised to provide a builder for each subclass of A.
-     Its constructor must accept a std::string containing the URI
+   * Create a template class `ABuilder<T>` which inherits from
+     `ConcreteThingBuilder<T, A, P>`.  This is your class which will
+     be specialised to provide a builder for each subclass of `A`.
+     Its constructor must accept a `std::string` containing the URI
      that identifies the class of object being built, which is
      passed to the parent class's constructor.  Optionally, it may
-     also accept and pass to the parent class a vector<string> of
+     also accept and pass to the parent class a `vector<string>` of
      "tags", which are strings used to identify the sorts of
      facility this builder's object supports -- for example, file
      extensions or MIME types that the object can parse.  If two
@@ -38,38 +38,38 @@
      on static object construction ordering, so it's generally
      better if tags are unique to a builder).
 
-   * You may also wish to typedef ThingFactory<A, P> to something
-     like AFactory, for convenience.
+   * You may also wish to typedef `ThingFactory<A, P>` to something
+     like `AFactory`, for convenience.
 
- * in a .cpp file associated with each of B, C, D etc,
+ * in a `.cpp` file associated with each of `B`, `C`, `D` etc,
 
-   * Define a static variable of class ABuilder<B>, ABuilder<C>,
-     ABuilder<D>, etc, passing the class's identifying URI and
+   * Define a static variable of class `ABuilder<B>`, `ABuilder<C>`,
+     `ABuilder<D>`, etc, passing the class's identifying URI and
      optional supported tag list to its constructor.  (If you
      like, this could be a static member of some class.)
 
 You can then do the following:
 
- * call AFactory::getInstance()->getURIs() to retrieve a list of
+ * call `AFactory::getInstance()->getURIs()` to retrieve a list of
    all registered URIs for this factory.
 
- * call AFactory::getInstance()->create(uri, parameters), where
-   parameters is an object of type P, to construct a new object
+ * call `AFactory::getInstance()->create(uri, parameters)`, where
+   parameters is an object of type `P`, to construct a new object
    whose class is that associated with the URI uri.
 
- * call AFactory::getInstance()->getTags() to retrieve a list of
+ * call `AFactory::getInstance()->getTags()` to retrieve a list of
    all tags known to be supported by some builder.  Remember that
    builders do not have to support any tags and many builders
    could support the same tag, so you cannot retrieve all builders
    by starting from the tags list: use getURIs for that.
 
- * call AFactory::getInstance()->getURIFor(tag), where tag is a
-   std::string corresponding to one of the tags supported by some
+ * call `AFactory::getInstance()->getURIFor(tag)`, where tag is a
+   `std::string` corresponding to one of the tags supported by some
    builder, to obtain the URI of the first builder to have
    registered its support for the given tag.
  
- * call AFactory::getInstance()->createFor(tag, parameters), where
-   tag is a std::string corresponding to one of the tags supported by
-   some builder and parameters is an object of type P, to
+ * call `AFactory::getInstance()->createFor(tag, parameters)`, where
+   tag is a `std::string` corresponding to one of the tags supported by
+   some builder and parameters is an object of type `P`, to
    construct a new object whose class is that built by the first
    builder to have registered its support for the given tag.