diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 3fab519..7c4c965 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Note that at least [ngx_lua 0.7.9](https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-modu
 Synopsis
 ========
 
+```lua
     lua_package_path "/path/to/lua-resty-redis/lib/?.lua;;";
 
     server {
@@ -67,9 +68,11 @@ Synopsis
             ';
         }
     }
+```
 
 A typical output of the /test location defined above is:
 
+```json
     read: ["header",["Content-Disposition","form-data; name=\"file1\"; filename=\"a.txt\"","Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file1\"; filename=\"a.txt\""]]
     read: ["header",["Content-Type","text\/plain","Content-Type: text\/plain"]]
     read: ["body","Hello"]
@@ -82,9 +85,11 @@ A typical output of the /test location defined above is:
     read: ["part_end"]
     read: ["eof"]
     read: ["eof"]
+```
 
 You can use the [lua-resty-string](https://github.com/agentzh/lua-resty-string) library to compute SHA-1 and MD5 digest of the file data incrementally. Here is such an example:
 
+```lua
     local resty_sha1 = require "resty.sha1"
     local upload = require "resty.upload"
 
@@ -130,6 +135,7 @@ You can use the [lua-resty-string](https://github.com/agentzh/lua-resty-string)
             -- do nothing
         end
     end
+```
 
 If you want to copmute MD5 sums for the uploaded files, just use the
 resty.md5 module shipped by the lua-resty-string library. It has