One Thing Well: Tumblr's Markdown Link is a Lie!

http://onethingwell.org/post/1680780219/tumblr-markdown

onethingwell:

If you use Markdown to compose your Tumblr posts, you might be forgiven for thinking that the system uses Markdown too—the posting form links to the original syntax guide on Daring Fireball, after all.

It turns out that link is a bit of a fib. Tumblr actually uses PHP Markdown Extra, or…

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    in fact supports...Extra supports much more than...original...

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    past two weeks I have been working...batch script so I can write blog posts in Notepad++...

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30. marco said: You’re right. Markdown is there pretty much entirely because I wanted to use it. (I hate every web rich-text editor.) I also bolted SmartyPants to it.
31. dataanxiety said: No, you weren’t the only one who didn’t know. Thanks for spreading the word. Else I’d never have figured it out!
32. mrtoto said: I think Tumblr is using Fletcher Penney’s [MultiMarkdown](fletcherpenney.net/mult…) which includes a number of useful additions, like the ones mentioned.
33. tsparks said: I started using markdown a short time ago, this is news to me.
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35. everythinginthesky said: You’re the second-to-last, it would seem. Thanks for sharing.
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