# Message formatting

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [November 26, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282 "2021-11-26T18:50:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282/1 "2021-11-26T18:50:10Z")

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Hi,

Horrible message formatting

🤮

does anyone know a fix?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/racket/original/1X/b8c981791558cb7058f17a8fc59e94992ae824dc.jpeg)

bw  
Stephen

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**Author:** ![dominik.pantucek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/dominik.pantucek/32/144_2.png) [@dominik.pantucek](https://racket.discourse.group/u/dominik.pantucek)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282/2 "2021-11-26T19:04:32Z")

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Well, this is what it says: Type here. Use Markdown, BBCode, or HTML to format. Drag or paste images.  
😉  
I used plain Markdown (as that's what I use for informal notes all the time). Didn't catch that Discourse didn't render the paragraphs properly and kept the original line-breaks. Maybe the instructions are meant to be interpreted as: Use inline Markdown formatting such as emphasis? But then the item list got rendered correctly - which confuses me even more...

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**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282/3 "2021-11-26T20:22:40Z")

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There was debate but I gave up before I got to the end of the topic

> **[Advanced post option to override markdown linebreak setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-post-option-to-override-markdown-linebreak-setting/81722?u=spdegabrielle)**
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> Some of our advanced markdown users have been bitten by our default setting for linebreaks: After furiously typing beautiful prose in vim, they paste it into the composer and are befuddled and ridiculed because their post looks like this: I’m...

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**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282/4 "2021-11-27T15:21:53Z")

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My guess is that checking this box would anger more people than it pleased. At a minimum, I guarantee a lot of questions from people who are sad that their paragraph break disappeared.

Opinions?

_Poll ([view on site](https://racket.discourse.group/t/message-formatting/282/4))_

NB: this is not a "binding" poll, I'm just curious to see how the poll tool works.