Merge pull request #3330 from stevepiercy/docs-code-style

Docs code style

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/docs/typographical-conventions.rst b/docs/typographical-conventions.rst
index 2bfe4ffa6..76fdf8ace 100644
--- a/docs/typographical-conventions.rst
+++ b/docs/typographical-conventions.rst
@@ -73,17 +73,17 @@ XML:
 
     <somesnippet>Some XML</somesnippet>
 
-Unix shell commands are prefixed with a ``$`` character. (See :term:`venv` for the meaning of ``$VENV``.)
+Unix shell commands (See :term:`venv` for the meaning of ``$VENV``.):
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    $ $VENV/bin/pip install -e .
+    $VENV/bin/pip install -e .
 
-Windows commands are prefixed with a drive letter with an optional directory name. (See :term:`venv` for the meaning of ``%VENV%``.)
+Windows commands (See :term:`venv` for the meaning of ``%VENV%``.):
 
 .. code-block:: doscon
 
-    c:\> %VENV%\Scripts\pserve development.ini
+    %VENV%\Scripts\pserve development.ini
 
 cfg:
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ When a command that should be typed on one line is too long to fit on the displa
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    $ $VENV/bin/py.test tutorial/tests.py --cov-report term-missing \
+    $VENV/bin/py.test tutorial/tests.py --cov-report term-missing \
         --cov=tutorial -q