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March 20, 2004

Markdown

Borrowing from email conventions and possibly wiki formatting, Aaron Swartz and John Gruber have developed Markdown, a text markup syntax which can be converted into html by a perl script. There is also a plugin for MT. Play with it using Dingus. (via Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing)

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