The Opinionated Bastard

Markdown is this useful plugin for MoveableType blogs (i.e., this one) that lets me write in more or less plain text, but then goes on to produce nice looking HTML.

Theory Vs. Practice

For instance, that header was made by underlining the title.

That’s the theory anyways, I’m testing it now. I’ve been using Textile for awhile now, but Markdown seems better because:

1. The raw text looks readable.
2. Yet it can pull out things like numbered lists
3. By just noticing the leading number entry

Or you can use asterixs to produce:

• unnumbered
• lists

Which is pretty cool. I’ll be using the

blockquote feature a lot, since its nice to be able to quote other sites.

The other coolness is that ecto supports it, where it didn’t support Textile which is what I was using before. Or rather, it supported it in that I could use it, but it didn’t support previewing with it, which it does now according to this