Markdown!

[jack]

I didn't notice, Dreamwidth have introduced support for markdown syntax!

I find that an awful lot more useful than HTML or rich text because I usually only want bold and italic, but I like to be able to copy the text into a text editor or read it without a lot of html tags.

You can easily make unordered lists

• just
• like
• this

And you can make automatically-ordered lists

1. although
2. they
3. only
4. use
5. successive
6. positive
7. integers

And the one thing I always found a pain in LJ/DW HTML, making a

Blockquote

And it's even easy to

Blockquote several
different lines
of text
by putting a >
at the beginning
of the first

And it even has

int main()
{
  cout << "automatic formatting" << " of code " << "samples";
}

It's a very recent, very quick and dirty beta, so it's amazing it just works as well as it does. Ironically the one thing it doesn't do is applying the formatting before it crossposts a post, so the dreamwidth copy of this post has the formatted version, and the livejournal copy has the original source (see link below for the other one). I imagine there's a dreamwidth bug for this, or maybe eventually livejournal will copy the code changes.

Comments

[fluffymormegil]

Oooh. Shiny! I have an ikiwiki, so being able to use markdown syntax on LJ as well is a definite win :)