Textile Markup now compatible with Posterous
EDIT: Nope. Didn't work. False alarm everybody. The day I'm able to send this email and it shows up in the browser as proper HTML, I'll click my heals. (Work for Posterous or use Posterous? See the post comments for more details...). I originally thought Textile had been implemented when the last Get Satisfaction post that said "Textile!" was submitted. This was my enthusiastic, evangelistic shout out for Posterous.
Finally, you can reliably format the resulting HTML markup from a plain text email by using a few simple syntax rules in your Posterous post.
All of this HTML was spit out using the plain-text markup illustrated at these links: "for paragraphs (Examples of paragraph formatting...)":http://redcloth.org/textile/writing-paragraph-text/ here "for layout (Examples of layout formatting like bullets and blockquotes...)":http://redcloth.org/textile/page-layout/ and here "for text modifiers (Examples of text modifiers like html link formatting...)":http://redcloth.org/textile/phrase-modifiers/.
This is better because:
* All too often I had to go edit a post to fix formatting after submitting it by email.* This allows precision formatting from a plain-text email like would come from an iphone or blackberry.
* You don't have to learn or edit HTML with the Posterous post editor. I've been waiting for this for some time, but I commend the Posterous team on their speed and eventual release of the the addition of this feature. Thanks guys, for always improving. Here's the ongoing dialogue with Posterous about this feature: "Get Satisfaction Thread (View comments by others about this topic...)":http://getsatisfaction.com/posterous/topics/markdown_or_another_simple_markup_in_posterous
