{"id":15387,"date":"2012-08-30T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2012\/08\/30\/markdown-clean-text-for-the-web\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:14","slug":"markdown-clean-text-for-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2012\/08\/30\/markdown-clean-text-for-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Markdown: Clean text for the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How have I not discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\" title=\"Markdown, explained by its creator\">Markdown<\/a> before?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing marketing e-mails and website copy for over a decade, and text formatting has been a constant hassle. (I&#8217;ve got a database of old articles that are borked because all of their bolds, italics, and line-returns got stripped by the system my client was using at the time.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Markdown is a way of coding text so you can get special formatting, like the above-mentioned <strong>bolding<\/strong>, <em>italics<\/em>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hame.land\/\">links<\/a>, but, unlike HTML, it&#8217;s very simple and is still readable by humans&#8221;&#8221;in fact, it looks a lot like things we&#8217;re accustomed to doing when we want to use formatted text but it isn&#8217;t available, like:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<pre><code>\"I *really, really* want to make a **point** here!!!\"<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Which would render as &#8220;I <em>really, really<\/em> want to make a <strong>point<\/strong> here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve asked my project manager if I can start submitting work in this format, because I think it&#8217;s going to save our web team a lot of hassle. I know when I was doing web design I hated having to work with Word files&#8221;&#8221;stripping out all the jumbled, awful code that program added, yet having to do a side-by-side, line-by-line comparison with the original to make sure I didn&#8217;t lose anything important from the original text.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you write for the web, you should be using Markdown!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How have I not discovered Markdown before? I&#8217;ve been writing marketing e-mails and website copy for over a decade, and text formatting has been a constant hassle. (I&#8217;ve got a database of old articles that are borked because all of their bolds, italics, and line-returns got stripped by the system my client was using at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}