diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e3010a6..8ee7956 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ you can run commands like help or ? to see what commands are
 available and any of the sub commands can be executed directly.
 
 Alternately you can not use the shell and just execute commands
-directly via >kollacli host add, etc.
+directly via kollacli host add, etc.
 
 If you make changes to the i18n strings (denoted by methods like
 _("message")) make sure to re-generate the i18n files with the
->python setup.py extract_messages command and check in the files
-generated in openstack-kollacli.
+``python setup.py extract_messages`` command and check in the
+files generated in openstack-kollacli.
 
 
 API