Marking up with Markdown

I’ve been using Textile for a long time now. Mainly because the previous incarnation of this site was running Textpattern. I was aware of alternatives, but due to inertia when I switched to Typo I carried on using Textile. It has a few annoyances (e.g. no easy formatting for `` blocks without resorting to HTML). As the saying goes "a change is a good as a rest" I decided to mark my [upgrade](http://schwuk.com/articles/2006/06/08/running-typo-svn-on-debian-stable-sarge) to Typo svn by switching to using [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) with [Smartypants](http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/) for both posts and comments. If you want to play with Markdown, you can do so on the [Dingus](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus/).