# When posting using mail, you can use markdown

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/when-posting-using-mail-you-can-use-markdown/647>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/when-posting-using-mail-you-can-use-markdown/647 "2022-02-03T18:18:08Z")\
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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:** [February 3, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/when-posting-using-mail-you-can-use-markdown/647/1 "2022-02-03T18:18:08Z")

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For the many people who use email for posting, the forum handles your message as markdown.

While you don’t need to use markdown, it has some helpful features:

- to format code start with three backticks (`) followed by `scheme` and end with three backticks. There isn’t a racket formatter yet but the scheme formatter works ok:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/racket/original/1X/6035dd508a4b73c01c8c7bcc843a2b3a6e1579f0.jpeg)

renders as

```scheme
(define (add1 n)
  (+ n 1))

```

- enclose inline code that contains markdown special characters in one (`) or two(``) backticks to render monospaced and disable markdown formatting.

Happy Thursday

Stephen

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**Author:** ![benknoble](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/benknoble/32/16_2.png) [@benknoble](https://racket.discourse.group/u/benknoble)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/when-posting-using-mail-you-can-use-markdown/647/2 "2022-02-03T20:31:20Z")

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Thanks for the reminder. I've tried this before from mail, but I  
(possibly mistakenly) recall my _markdown_ being **stripped**  
sometimes?

```scheme
(especially in (code snippets))

```