diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2bd344248..773f0f442 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,14 +31,15 @@ We provide shell script that automates the build of katran for Ubuntu 18.04.
 To build and install katran library and thrift/grpc examples - you need to run
 build_katran.sh script. It should take care of all the required dependencies.
 If you need to build it for other linux distributions, yon need to make sure that
+
 1. it runs on recent linux kernel (4.13+)
 2. you have installed:
-  1. [folly](https://github.com/facebook/folly)
-  2. recent version of clang compiler (6.0+)
-  3. glog/gtest/gflags/elf libraries
-  4. [wangle](https://github.com/facebook/wangle)
-  5. recent version of [linux kernel src](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git)
-  6. if you want to build examples [fbthrift](https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift) and [grpc](https://github.com/grpc/grpc) must be installed as well
+  - [folly](https://github.com/facebook/folly)
+  - recent version of clang compiler (6.0+)
+  - glog/gtest/gflags/elf libraries
+  - [wangle](https://github.com/facebook/wangle)
+  - recent version of [linux kernel src](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git)
+  - if you want to build examples [fbthrift](https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift) and [grpc](https://github.com/grpc/grpc) must be installed as well
 
 # motivation behind layer 4 load balancing
 Layer 4 load balancer (lb) enables to easily scale out Layer7 load balancers (the
diff --git a/USAGE.md b/USAGE.md
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--- a/USAGE.md
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@@ -182,16 +182,16 @@ lb.addVip(vip);
 The same function can be called w/ optional "flag" parameter.
 ‘flag’ can be used to specify some special conditions of this VIP. Currently the supported options are:
 
-0 - default value. Default vip uses connection table and use
+- 0 - default value. Default vip uses connection table and use
 src port and src addresses of the packet for hashing
-1 - HASH_NO_SRC_PORT, this flag removes src port from hashing calculation. This
+- 1 - HASH_NO_SRC_PORT, this flag removes src port from hashing calculation. This
 allows packets from same source address, but different ports to end up on the
 same destination server (some applications requires this: e.g. nfs or gfs)
-2 - LRU_BYPASS - disable connection table lookup/update for this VIP
-4 - QUIC_VIP - this is a VIP for QUIC protocol. Load balancing is going to be
+- 2 - LRU_BYPASS - disable connection table lookup/update for this VIP
+- 4 - QUIC_VIP - this is a VIP for QUIC protocol. Load balancing is going to be
 done based on connection-id field. This is not fully stable/actively being developed codepath
 (as IETF QUIC is still in developing stage and standard has not been finalized yet)
-8 - HASH_DPORT_ONLY - use only destination port for hashing. In this case
+- 8 - HASH_DPORT_ONLY - use only destination port for hashing. In this case
 only destination port is going to be used for hashing, so different clients
 (different src address/src port) with the same destination port would end
 up on the same real server (usually VOIP based protocols needs this)