Documentation for Textile 2 Character Macros: a Cheat Sheet
Adam Gessaman has released a great Textile 2 plugin — based on the work of Dean Allen, Brad Choate, and Jim Riggs — that is both more complete and faster than the one bundled with WordPress 1.2.
One of the more interesting innovations of Textile 2 was character macros. With these, you could type an ASCII representation of a Unicode character in curly brackets and have the Textile engine spit out the proper XHTML entity for the Unicode character automatically. No more wracking your brain for the correct named entity! No more reference tables! Well, not so fast…
The character macros, while they “can be guessed,” are over 157 in number. That’s a lot of guessing. There didn’t seem to be any comprehensive documentation for these macros, so I dug into the source code of Jim’s PHP version to create a reference table of my own. I hope this proves handy to all the Textile users out there, and maybe it can be rolled into the documentation of a future release as well. You can give feedback or corrections in a comment to this post. You can also, of course, e-mail me.
