diff --git a/hpvm/docs/developerdocs/backend-passes.rst b/hpvm/docs/developerdocs/backend-passes.rst
index d596193468b3c6dd2f86ddc04c3a8d491d743897..3d975dfe1f2e44dd974d42ab513512dd5e139f85 100644
--- a/hpvm/docs/developerdocs/backend-passes.rst
+++ b/hpvm/docs/developerdocs/backend-passes.rst
@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ The above example will illustrate the steps in transforming the leaf node in thi
 
 If the original call was:
 
-void* leaf =  __hpvm__createNodeND(3, (void*) leaf1_clone  , 5 , 6 , 7);
+`void* leaf =  __hpvm__createNodeND(3, (void*) leaf1_clone  , 5 , 6 , 7);`
 
 The code would be transformed to:
+
 .. code-block:: c
 
   for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++){
@@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ Let’s consider the end result of the `FuseHPVMTensorNodes` example:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
-  void all_fused(void *t1, size_t bytes_t1, void *t2,       size_t bytes_t2, void *t3, size_t bytes_t3) {
+  void all_fused(void *t1, size_t bytes_t1, void *t2, size_t bytes_t2, void *t3, size_t bytes_t3) {
 
 
     void *r1 = __hpvm__tensor_convolution(t1, t2, 2, 2, 4, 4);
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ codeGen(DFLeafNode* )
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
-  void all_fused_wrapper_api(void *t1, size_t bytes_t1, void *t2,     size_t bytes_t2, void *t3, size_t bytes_t3) {
+  void all_fused_wrapper_api(void *t1, size_t bytes_t1, void *t2, size_t bytes_t2, void *t3, size_t bytes_t3) {
     __hpvm_request_tensor(t1, /* GPU */ 1);
     __hpvm_request_tensor(t2, /* GPU */ 1);