diff --git a/tests/journal/market-prices.test b/tests/journal/market-prices.test
index 417b543b3..415889279 100644
--- a/tests/journal/market-prices.test
+++ b/tests/journal/market-prices.test
@@ -2,50 +2,49 @@
 # http://hledger.org/hledger.html#market-value
 
 # 1. Market prices are ignored by -B.
-hledger -f- bal -NB
-<<<
+<
 P 2011/01/01 € $1.35
 
 2011/01/01
     expenses:foreign       €100
     assets
->>>
+
+$ hledger -f- bal -NB
                €-100  assets
                 €100  expenses:foreign
->>>=0
+
 
 # 2. Market prices are used by bal -V. 
 # Market prices for other commodities are not used.
 # Nor are transaction prices.
-hledger -f- bal -N -V
-<<<
+<
 P 2011/01/01 € $1.35
 P 2011/01/01 GBP $1.35
 
 2011/01/01
     (expenses:foreign)       €100 @ $1.20
->>>
+
+$ hledger -f- bal -N -V
              $135.00  expenses:foreign
->>>=0
+
 
 # 3. Market prices in the future (later than today's date) are always ignored. #453, #683
 # XXX not working right now
-hledger -f- bal -N -V
-<<<
+<
 P 2000/1/1 $ €1.20
 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.30
 
 3000/01/01
   (a)    $100
->>>
+
+$ hledger -f- bal -N -V
              €120.00  a
->>>=0
+
 
 # 4. The market prices in effect at the report end date are used.
 # The location of price directives does not matter.
 # If multiple directives have the same date, the last parsed is used.
-hledger -f- bal -N -V a -e 3000/2
-<<<
+<
 P 3000/3/1 $ €1.40
 
 3000/01/01
@@ -57,27 +56,26 @@ P 3000/3/1 $ €1.40
 P 2000/1/1 $ €1.20
 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.35
 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.30
->>>
+
+$ hledger -f- bal -N -V a -e 3000/2
              €130.00  a
->>>=0
+
 
 # 5. Again, this time there are prices later than the journal data and
 # an explicit report end date brings them into play.
-hledger -f- bal -N -V a -e 3000/2
-<<<
+<
 P 3000/1/1 $ €1.10
 P 3000/2/1 $ €1.30
 
 3000/01/01
   (a)    $100
 
->>>
+$ hledger -f- bal -N -V a -e 3000/2
              €130.00  a
->>>=0
+
 
 # 6. Market prices interact with D directives and with amount style canonicalisation. #131
-hledger -f- balance -V
-<<<
+<
 
 D 1000.00 H                ; declare a default commodity named H
 
@@ -90,31 +88,32 @@ P 2015/08/14 GGGG  32.39
     a  0.3350 FFFF @@ 25
     a  0.7718 GGGG @@ 25
     b                      ; implicit balancing amount is in the cost commodity, H
->>>
+
+$ hledger -f- balance -V
             150.48 H  a
            -150.00 H  b
 --------------------
               0.48 H
->>>=0
+
 
 # 7. register: -V affects posting amounts and total.
-hledger -f- reg -V
-<<<
+<
 P 2000/1/1 $ €1.20
 2000/1/1
   (a)    $100
->>>
-2000/01/01                      (a)                        €120.00       €120.00
->>>=0
 
-# 8. print: -V affects posting amounts but not balance assertion amounts.
-hledger -f- print -V
-<<<
+$ hledger -f- reg -V
+2000/01/01                      (a)                        €120.00       €120.00
+
+
+# 8. print: -V affects posting amounts but not balance assertions.
+<
 P 2000/1/1 $ €1.20
 2000/1/1
   (a)    $100 = $100
->>>
+
+$ hledger -f- print -V
 2000/01/01
     (a)         €120.00 = $100
 
->>>=0
+>=0