Markdown
Mar 20, 2004I was reading through [Jim Clark’s blog](http://www.jclark.org/weblog)nand he commented on John Gruber’s [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).nThe idea is that you just write, forgetting about most of the mark up, and let a preprocessor handle it. There are a minimum of tags that are fairly email-like and, if not intuitive, simple. It’s a good idea and a convenient execution. It plugs into [Movable Type](http://www.movabletype.org) without any effort.