I’m sick of entering “Textile” into the search box at bradchoate.com over and over again to find this entry. I’m tossing a link into my own blog so I can get sick of entering “Textile” into the search box here, instead.
There are a few choice bits of syntax in Brad’s MT-Textile 2 beta that aren’t covered in the “?” help in the Movable Type interface. Brad’s got a page titled Thither MT-Textile 2 that includes some nifty tidbits like the Textile format for a <span> tag. For example:
%{color: red; font-weight: bold;}UPDATE%
is functionally equivalent to (and considerably shorter to type than) the following HTML:
<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span>
Both of them result in nice red, bold text:
UPDATE
I’m finding Textile to be a nice way to slap formatting onto my blog entries and still be able to read their source later on, without having to sift through a mountain of angle brackets. HTML is a fabulous thing, but as markup goes, it’s a serious eyesore.
