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› March 10, 2004
Markdown
A brilliantly named text based formatting tool from Mr. Gruber, Markdown is definitely worth your time, go check it out. It's robust, free for personal use, and pennies on the dollar for commercial integration. Since this site uses MT extensively, we might be very well suited to work something like this into the comment form. It's native MT use though, is as a plug-in where it's integrated into the interface itself for purpose of formatting your posts.
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1. March 10, 2004 04:20 PM
2. March 10, 2004 04:26 PM
Bob Posted…
I was about to comment on the similarities to Textile, but then.. What John said.
3. March 10, 2004 04:34 PM
nate Posted…
Well, as far as I understand it, textile can be used with Brad's MT-Textile plug-in to alter how MT *spits out* your content. Whereas the Markdown plugin appears as a choice in the "text formatting" pulldown within the MT interface. There are some differences in how the text-formatting is actually accomplished, but preference on that might be more a matter of taste.
4. March 10, 2004 04:45 PM
nate Posted…
Like this: Screenshot of Markdown within MT. Curious folks might be intrigued to learn that Markdown took litterally 2 seconds to install (upload 1 file - done).
5. March 10, 2004 05:21 PM
6. March 10, 2004 06:21 PM
since1968 Posted…
Nate, FYI Textile also appears as a choice in the text formatting of the MT interface. Another neat feature of Textile: there's a php version floating around out there, so it's easy to incorporate into a non-MT site. Still, it's nice to have a choice. Thanks for posting markdown.
John Zeratsky Posted…
What does it do that Textile doesn't?