diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7dd0205..78fef5c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ If you want to be able to use the PDF or Excel output formats, you must install
 
 ### For Debian/Ubuntu
 ```
-(as root)
+\# (as root)
 apt update							# versions prior to 16.04 LTS should use 'apt-get'
 apt -y install htmldoc
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ popd
 ```
 ### For RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
 ```
-(as root)
+\# (as root)
 yum -y install htmldoc perl-Excel-Writer-XLSX
 pushd /tmp/
 wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MF/MFRANKL/HTML-HTMLDoc-0.10.tar.gz
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ popd
 popd
 ```
 
-### for Gentoo
+### For Gentoo
 ```
-(as root)
+\# (as root)
 emerge -av1 app-text/htmldoc dev-perl/HTML-HTMLDoc 
 
 pushd /tmp/