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Re:Ask YC: Textile vs Markdown by jcromartie on Sunday May 11, 2008 @11:27PM (#187239)
I think Markdown is more widely used, but I personally like Textile because it supports one thing that Markdown does not: footnotes. Otherwise, they are basically equivalent to me.
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Re:Ask YC: Textile vs Markdown by willarson on Monday May 12, 2008 @04:09AM (#187393)
Most up-to-date Markdown implementations support footnotes (specifically the Python one does for certain, but the syntax has been around for a while).

The syntax is pretty easy. [^1]

[^1]: And really adds some jazz to blog entries.

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