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 ## Eigen CI infrastructure
 
 Eigen's CI infrastructure uses three stages:
-  1. A 'checkformat` stage to verify MRs satisfy proper formatting style, as
+  1. A `checkformat` stage to verify MRs satisfy proper formatting style, as
      defined by `clang-format`.
   2. A `build` stage to build the unit-tests.
   3. A `test` stage to run the unit-tests.