Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text

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  1. markup

    Determines which markup library to use to render a content file (e.g. README) on GitHub

    `Textile` is a similar language to Markdown, used to weave text across multiple IDEs, programming languages, and CMSs:

    https://textile-lang.com/

    Textile is one of the core markups supported by GitHub and Pandoc:

    https://github.com/github/markup / https://pandoc.org/

    And many CMS, most famously TextPattern and MoveableType, but also things like Jekyll:

    https://textile-lang.com/article/textile-markup-language-sup...

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  3. pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    `Textile` is a similar language to Markdown, used to weave text across multiple IDEs, programming languages, and CMSs:

    https://textile-lang.com/

    Textile is one of the core markups supported by GitHub and Pandoc:

    https://github.com/github/markup / https://pandoc.org/

    And many CMS, most famously TextPattern and MoveableType, but also things like Jekyll:

    https://textile-lang.com/article/textile-markup-language-sup...

  4. textile

    I like the idea of being able to specify the prompt, as a reminder of what you wanted to copy to the clipboard at that point.

    I've created a new issue for this (it's similar to an idea I already had):

    https://github.com/rob-johansen/textile/issues/75

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