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Moving to Markdown

I’ve started using John Gruber’s Markdown. While I’ve been a fan of the [Textile](http://www.textism.com/textile) system for a while, Markdown’s sytax feels cleaner to me, particularly when you’re looking at it in plain text. The main purpose of the various markup generators to me seems to be to ensure that your formatting distracts as little from your plain text as possible. Since Markdown grabbed a lot of conventions from plain-text email, most of the syntax rules just feel very natural and readableto me–more so than Textile’s.

As an added note, while browsing the web I found a link to the [Humane Text Service](http://gu.st/proj/HumaneText.service/), that would allow you to run the contents of any text field through the markdown script to produce XHTML. Would allow me to use codes when entering into any website, whether the server supports it or not. Cool.