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 hoki is a python package designed to interface with BPASS outputs to make them easy to use with standard python packages such as pandas, numpy and astropy. 
 
 
-**NOTE:**``hoki`` is still in pre-release
+**NOTE:** ``hoki`` is still in pre-release
    
 Installing hoki
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