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Why do you use markdown instead of textile?

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Anthony Constantino

07 Feb, 2009 12:55 AM

I have to admit after using Textile (or something very similar to it) in Basecamp, Backpack, and Mingle it's a bit of a struggle switching to Markdown. The documentation isn't as thorough either on Markdown.

Why does Lighthouse use markdown? I'm just curious... and any tips for making a switch? resources? I already read through:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Are there plans to implement a better way format text?

1. 1 Posted by Will Duncan on 07 Feb, 2009 01:53 AM

   

   That's actually a very valid question. Early versions of Lighthouse contained a lightweight textile-like setup, which worked fine, but it wasn't flexible for detailed formatting.

   When we looked into beefing it up, we had received a lot of Markdown requests from our users, and began to look at a fully functional markdown more closely.
   

   In the end, we found Markdown much cleaner to read in emails and notifications from Lighthouse, which is one of the advantages Lighthouse offers over other ticket-trackers.

   In the end it was just a better fit.

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2. 2 Posted by laurenoxe on 07 Feb, 2009 11:39 PM

   

   Hey everyone, new to the forums and look forward to getting to know you all.

   Lauren =)

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3. 3 Posted by klfarr on 08 Feb, 2009 02:49 AM

   

   Hi there, I love switch to Markdown, but the # (h1) tags are rendered smaller than the ## (h2) tags which is a bit confusing.

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4. 4 Posted by Robby Russell on 08 Feb, 2009 10:21 PM

   

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5. brandi closed this discussion on 29 Jun, 2012 10:06 PM.