diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index c953394..5af90b3 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
 
    print hello
 
-Note that newlines still need to be embedded in the string using ``\n``; the
+Note that newlines still need to be embedded in the string using ``\n`` -- the
 newline following the trailing backslash is discarded.  This example would print
 the following: