Brad Choate has just released MT Textile 2. If you want to see the cool text feature that are easy to implement with Textile 2, go here.
I'm now a big fan of MT Textile, but I swear I need a cheat sheet next to the monitor to remember all the formatting options.
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I have it installed but mai... (Below threshold)1. Posted by James Joyner | February 4, 2004 3:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have it installed but mainly just so that I can use SmartyPants to automatically take care of the em dashes, hypens, and such.
1. Posted by James Joyner | February 4, 2004 3:30 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2004 15:30
2. Posted by Kevin | February 4, 2004 3:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That's how I started, but once I saw I could do other things I was hooked.
2. Posted by Kevin | February 4, 2004 3:42 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2004 15:42
3. Posted by Fritz | February 4, 2004 4:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Woo hoo! Now I have something to do tonight besides watch Part 2 of the Hollywood round on American Idol!
3. Posted by Fritz | February 4, 2004 4:22 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2004 16:22
4. Posted by Venomous Kate | February 4, 2004 10:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ok, maybe I'm missing something but... couldn't we do all of that with HTML tags before?
4. Posted by Venomous Kate | February 4, 2004 10:02 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2004 22:02
5. Posted by Matthew Stinson | February 5, 2004 1:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You can, Kate, but if you learn the Textile syntax coding is faster. The rub, of course, is that you have to learn the Textile syntax, which for many people will extract a higher opportunity cost than just using old-fashioned HTML :-)
5. Posted by Matthew Stinson | February 5, 2004 1:36 AM |
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Posted on February 5, 2004 01:36
6. Posted by Chris Lawrence | February 6, 2004 12:28 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I use Textile (well, PyTextile) for all my blogging, and it's very cool. At some point I'll probably end up porting the Textile 2 syntax myself, since Mark Pilgrim has orphaned the PyTextile project.
6. Posted by Chris Lawrence | February 6, 2004 12:28 AM |
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Posted on February 6, 2004 00:28
7. Posted by Adam M. | June 5, 2004 3:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
For the WordPress users out there, Adam Gessaman has released a WordPress plugin for Textile 2 that emulates all of Choate's features. It's based on Jim Riggs's PHP port of Brad's Perl module.
In part because they weren't very well documented, I just made up a comprehensive reference table for the 157 handy character replacement macros in Textile 2 (e.g. {Y=} produces the Yen symbol). You can find that here.
7. Posted by Adam M. | June 5, 2004 3:46 PM |
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Posted on June 5, 2004 15:46