Blog de Brad

Since I have finished University for the year, one thing I have been doing is learning how to write using Markdown, a lightweight markup language for my blog writing.

I am no newcomer to the world of basic HTML formatting, which the Markdown language is converted to after I finished writing. Markdown for me is so much faster to use whilst writing a paragraph quickly and is also much more readable, as opposed to looking through a series of HTML tags to scan through your content.

The application I use to write in Markdown is TextMate, which integrates brilliant with Markdown, highlighting the various syntax it uses with different colours and can also be used to skip through sections of writing through the use of the headings you apply to text.

The only gripe I have whilst using Markdown is that, whilst being used on Tumblr it does not format Markdown (or HTML) properly in the Dashboard; making it confusing in some cases to read my posts without clicking through on to my blog. I tend to use the same uniformed formatting for my posts on Euphony something that can’t be done through the use of Markdown through Tumblr.

I’m going to email Tumblr, hoping they respond back, to see if anything can be down about this problem. I will update again with any developments..