Textile and Not Textile

Posted Thu Feb 3, 2005 in

I just discovered something very disappointing. The implementation of Textile in Movable Type is similar to, but not the same as the original implementation developed by Dean Allen.

(Listen to my long scream of AAAAaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh…)

So, I guess I’ll go through my entries one-by-one and edit them. That’s a lot of editing, but it will be worth it to have everything “right” once again.

I didn’t think the transition would be this difficult. But then again, we are talking about some 1,700 entries in my weblog. A few were lost in the transition, but not many. Certainly they won’t be missed in the larger scheme of things and my textbase will be substantially cleaned up after I finish. This will also be a good time to make sure that all of my images are there and the code for them is clean too.

But, it isn’t a short and simple process. Well, the process is simple enough—it is just editing after all. But it will certainly not be short; it will take me some time to go through everything.