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 In the Tone library, time can be described in a number of ways. Any method which takes a time as a parameter will accept the number in seconds as well as a tempo-relative form. 
 
-For example to `"4n"` is a quarter-note and "4:2:0" is the third beat of the fifth measure (remember we're counting from 0). 
+For example to `"4n"` is a quarter-note and `"4:2:0"` is the third beat of the fifth measure (remember we're counting from 0). 
 
 [Read more Time](https://github.com/Tonejs/Tone.js/wiki/Time).