@@ -9,12 +9,16 @@
           of Cortav. we do the best we can, but note the following important
           discrepancies:
 
             1) the inline resource syntax allows a wide range of complex
-               brackets pairs such as <!--:[ ]:--!>; the Kate syntax only
+               brackets pairs such as <!-:[ ]:-!>; the Kate syntax only
                accounts for the pair { }
 -->
-<language name='Cortav' version='1' kateversion='2.4' section='Markup' extensions='*.ct'>
+<language name='Cortav'
+			 section='Markup'
+			 extensions='*.ct'
+			 version='1'
+			 kateversion='2.4'>
 	<highlighting>
 		<list name='extension-directives'>
 			<item>uses</item>
 			<item>needs</item>
@@ -161,9 +165,8 @@
 				<IncludeRules context='span'/>
 			</context>
 
 			<context name='span-cue' attribute='Span Cue' lineEndContext='#pop' fallthroughContext="error">
-				<StringDetect attribute='Span Cue' String='`\' context='#pop!flat-span' />
 				<StringDetect attribute='Span Cue' String='"' context='#pop!flat-span' />
 
 				<DetectChar   attribute='Span Cue' char='!' context='#pop!span-emph' />
 				<DetectChar   attribute='Span Cue' char='*' context='#pop!span-strong' />