[Elves] Going Textile

[Alan Gutierrez]

I wasn't going to add it to any existing bloggers. I was going to
update the lesson plan and begin to teach it in the Workshops.

* Loki <george.williams.iv at gmail.com> [2006-06-06 00:09]:
> Hold off on that, for me anyway. I write html in wordpad as often as
> not, its reflexive at this point. Wait until I free up some timewise
> before we go throwing changes in. I'm a little too busy for additional
> classtime on new skills..
> 
> -Loki
> 
> On 6/5/06, Alan Gutierrez <alan at thinknola.com> wrote:
> > You All,
> >
> > I hate the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. One of the worst thing about it is
> > that it will allow people to cut ant paste Word for Windows HTML, which
> > is vicious stuff, full of inline formatting. The result is that the web
> > sites start to break.
> >
> > I've installed a WordPress Textile markup language plugin. This is much
> > easier to use than HTML. It's used by 37 Signals in their Writeboard,
> > Basecamp and Backpack projects. It's used by the Instiki Wiki.
> >
> > My thought is that if we can teach people Textile in the course of the
> > web publishing workshop, we could make it much easier to teach Basecamp
> > and Instiki down the road. We could have people learning Wiki markup at
> > the outset, and they'd be that much closer to editing the Think New
> > Orleans Wiki (which uses a different sort of markup, but oh well, maybe
> > we make a massive port.)
> >
> > Okay, I'm going back to work on calendaring. Loki, I ought to set you up
> > with Textile and you can tell me if it doesn't speed you up.
> >
> > I, for one, have always been much, much faster with Wiki markup that
> > either HTML or WYSIWYG.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
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