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+MemoryModule
+============
+
 The default windows API functions to load external libraries into a program
-(LoadLibrary, LoadLibraryEx) only work with files on the filesystem.  It's
+(`LoadLibrary`, `LoadLibraryEx`) only work with files on the filesystem.  It's
 therefore impossible to load a DLL from memory.
 
 But sometimes, you need exactly this functionality (e.g. you don't want to
@@ -8,8 +11,8 @@ workarounds for this problems are to write the DLL into a temporary file
 first and import it from there.  When the program terminates, the temporary
 file gets deleted.
 
-MemoryModule is a library that can be used to load a DLL completely from
+`MemoryModule` is a library that can be used to load a DLL completely from
 memory - without storing on the disk first.
 
-See doc/readme.txt for more informations about the format of a DLL file and
+See `doc/readme.txt` for more informations about the format of a DLL file and
 a tutorial how they can be loaded directly.