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WordPress Text Formatting

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Being new to the scene, I’ve just recently started to play around with some of the tools of the trade. I’ve added a combination of Markdown1, SmartyPants2, and Bö3 plugins to my WordPress installation. I must say I’m really impressed.

SmartyPants is just plain cool. No thinking, just type and nice “edumacated” quotes come out the other end. And it works in BBEdit too. Nice.

I played around with Markdown about 2 weeks ago. It didn’t strike me as anything that great as a BBEdit plug, but now I am beginning to see its power. It really does make posting much easier. Another score.

Bö is very well done, but at first, I wasn’t sure if I would really use it that much. Now that I think about it though, I do use a lot of parenthetical remarks that would be much better if relegated to a footnote.

I’m really looking forward to using these tools more. Hopefully Bö will grow into a BBEdit plug just like Markdown and SmartyPants are.

1 PHP version of Markdown for WordPress is available here
2 PHP version of SmartyPants for WordPress is available here
3 PHP version of Bö is available here

Enter the Molehole…

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This is a quick first entry. I just want to mention some of the topics I might be covering in the next couple of weeks. One can see from the categories already set up that I have an interest in physics, being that I am in graduate school for it. Come here for the lowdown on what its like to work at a gov’t lab.

Music will be another topic of discussion. Since there’s not a whole lot of current stuff that tickles me right, most of the posts in this section will probably pertain to the music that Mike and I create and the processes that we use.

I’ll put up some more categories as I see fit in the future – expect lots of random reviews on random things. Cuz that’s what the world needs; more reviews.