I’m setting up a new site for a client, and the site includes a blog. He doesn’t know a lick of HTML so I want to make it easy for him to format his entries. For other clients I’ve installed and given them a tutorial on Brad Choate’s [Textile][txt main]. Works okay, lets someone make basic links, bold, italic, blockquotes, etc.
[txt main]:http://bradchoate.com/mt-plugins/textile
But now I’m trying John Gruber’s [Markdown][mk main]. I think I [finally][old post] get the big difference between Textile and Markdown. Both convert every day text to XHTML, but Markdown does it in a far more natural way. When my client formats an entry with Markdown it will be easier for him to pull it up later and edit it since he won’t have to read between the lines of syntax. The text _looks_ like it should. Instead of a code that says in effect, “indent the paragraph here” the paragraph is literally indented. That has to be easier both to do and explain.
[mk main]:http://www.daringfireball.net/projects/markdown
[old post]:http://www.momathome.com/viewfromhome/movable_type/why_weblog_software.php
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