Well, the code that I have for Textile 2.0 is actually marked “beta” but it works great. In fact, it’s what I use to do all the formatting of posts for my site (including the comments – hint, hint [;-)]). At any rate, it is what Dean Allen calls “a Humane Text Generator.” It’s purpose is to allow you to do some formatting of your posts without having to learn HTML at all.

That is, you put asterisks (*) on either side of a word for strong text, and underscores (_) for emphasis, and so on. You can play with how it works on Dean’s test site for textile and if you want the WordPress textile plugin, you can get it here... I also made a plugin of the older version, at Matt’s request, so here is the textile 1.o plugin

As a side note… this plugin completely disables WordPress’s built in “texturize” plugin. Not doing so results in a mishmash of ampersands and garbage that practically always results in random links and completely illegible posts.

Edit 3-May-2005] I just noticed I’m using a slightly updated version that I haven’t linked before (all I did was make some changes that make Beautifier work a little better), but just to be sure, here are my 2.5 changes

Edit 3-Oct-2005] Another release by Dean Allen in his blogging tool TextPattern 4.0 has prompted me to make another release too. Supposedly minor changes, but … it should improve block handling and the ‘notextile’ tag (or double equals) works, as evidenced by *this text* not being _marked up_. Textile 2.6 and Textile 2.6 for beautifiers ... the “for beautifiers” version is what I’m using, it removes Textile’s clean-up of <code> sections, so that I can use GeshiSyntaxColorer