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Easy Text Formatting with Textile
HTML is rather verbose as a markup language, and having to include closing tags is messy and error-prone. We're all pretty much stuck with delivering HTML code from our web sites, but that doesn't mean we have to write in it. There are various markup approaches that are superior to HTML when it comes to content creation, and which can be used as source code from which to create HTML. Two that are widely used are ... continue...
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Documentation (3)
- Textile Reference
A comprehensive guide to Textile markup syntax.
- Browser-based Textile renderer
Want to try out a textile expression? Enter it on this page and it will show you the resulting HTML markup.
- Textile 2.0
Quick reference and a web-based Textile-to-HTML converter for testing.
Software (3)
- acts_as_textiled
Plugin that makes using Textile as simple as it can be. The specified model field is always interpreted as Textile when displayed, except when in a form (for editing).
- RedCloth [Textile Humane Web Text for Ruby]
Ruby gem for translating Textile markup to HTML.
- Textile Editor Helper
Plugin that shows a simple toolbar over Textile text-entry areas, so you can, for example, click a Word-like “B” icon for bold and it will wrap the selected text in asterisks. (Display is still not wysiwyg, however.)
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