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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ progress which means that every operation completes within a finite number of
 steps independently of any other concurrent operations on the same data
 structure.
 
-![Building blocks of EMB²](doc/images/embb.png =500x)
+<img src="doc/images/embb.png" alt="Building blocks of EMB²" width="500"/>
 
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