Textile is my favorite plain text to valid XHTML parser out there. It works beautifully simply, but is also very powerful too. It is much easier to show people how to use this than banging your head over rich text errors and oddness (as a former TinyMCE maintainer, I can validly say, “been there, done that”).

For Drupal, there is a wonderful textile module that the fine folks at Chapter Three LLC have taken over. This module works very simply and in my testing, is much more reliable and bug free in parsing when compared to Markdown with Smarty, which offers very similar parsing capabilities.

However, yesterday when I was working on the announcement for 2 Guys Uncorked, I ran into a problem. How the heck could I get Textile and the Digg This button to work together well?

After some reading, I found this forum post that detailed how to turn textile processing on and off inline. With some fiddling, I found the magic answer to be the following:

The key being to have the notextile.. being on the same line as the code it needed to stop processing and then having the p. on a new line, with a space separating the following content.

And voilà, textile continues to rock :)