From 5fc263e4c41b9442258f358eb3a5139c915173b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz <madphysicist@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:08:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Incorrect rendering of dashes

Without double-backticks, '--' renders as a single en-dash in sphinx. See parameters section: http://matplotlib.org/api/lines_api.html#matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_linestyle
---
 lib/matplotlib/lines.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/lines.py b/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
index 18a1d8186a8e..0ded319aacf9 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ def set_linestyle(self, ls):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        ls : { '-',  '--', '-.', ':'} and more see description
+        ls : { ``'-'``,  ``'--'``, ``'-.'``, ``':'``} and more see description
             The line style.
         """
         if not is_string_like(ls):