diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/WAKE-DOCTRINE.md b/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/WAKE-DOCTRINE.md
index 9be44cd2..d95c2d60 100644
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/WAKE-DOCTRINE.md
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/guides/WAKE-DOCTRINE.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ are local-write-only and cumulative; a turn never blocks on the network to ack.
 and acked; only machine `digest` wakes coalesce. A parked or absent pane must never lose a human
 or peer message.
 
-**Park is two-phase:** flush-and-checkpoint (recording the CONSUMED cursor) *before* `/clear`.
+**Park is two-phase:** flush-and-checkpoint (recording the CONSUMED cursor) _before_ `/clear`.
 
 **Liveness is independent of work-triggering:** an off-host dead-man beacon, alarming on absence —
 never a same-host sibling, never a pane scrape.