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 ## Cross-packaging for other Distributions
 
 You can create packages for different distributions  
-setting the environment variables ```LURE_DISTRO``` and ```LURE_PKG_FORMAT```.
+setting the environment variables `LURE_DISTRO` and `LURE_PKG_FORMAT`.
 
 ```
 LURE_DISTRO=arch     LURE_PKG_FORMAT=archlinux lure build