Best way to implement 'markdown' rather than use WYSIWYG?

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Adam S's picture

With a publishing workflow how does a person most securely get HTML markup (down? not sure) into text? It also has to be simple or at least easy explained for stupid people like myself to use. I wouldn't mind a WYSIWYG without all that hidden garble that comes when something is pasted out of Word.

EDIT: Maybe something that corrects my grammar too. Just kidding. I did once read an issues thread writing by Dries threatening to ban somebody for poor grammar that was posted in 2004. I wish I saved it because it is priceless.

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TinyMCE has pretty good built

eli's picture

TinyMCE has pretty good built in facility for filtering out unwanted tags and there are plugins to deal specifically for pasting from Word.

It really depends on your needs. If you just want to be able to create some hyperlinks and make text bold or italics, it's pretty easy to restrict to only those few tags and even Word will have a hard time screwing that up.

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