Markdown as a System Service!

[mr. k]

As much fun as it is to write html, it can be a big pain sometimes. But then I would much rather write any html I have to write by hand then let dreamweaver do it for me. But when John Gruber released his Markdown text filter the other day I got interested and installed it on my local MT 'weblog.'
It's really a cool system with a simple syntax. And as I just saw, someone figured out how to use markdown.pl as an OS X SystemService!
Just follow the instructions on the above linked page, and in your [application] -> Services menu you get a "Convert to humane text" option. Here are the results, written in a standard safari dialog box and then converted to html with the filter:

an unordered list
=======
* 1
* 2
    * 2.1
    * 2.2
* 3

now just an ordered list:
------------
1. apple
2. bananna
3. cadeau
4. des cadeaux
5. en ligne
6. flog
    1. log
    2. bog
    3. dog  
* * *

<h1>an unordered list</h1>

<ul>
<li>1</li>
<li>2
<ul>
<li>2.1</li>
<li>2.2</li>
</ul></li>
<li>3</li>
</ul>

<h2>now just an ordered list:</h2>

<ol>
<li>apple</li>
<li>bananna</li>
<li>cadeau</li>
<li>des cadeaux</li>
<li>en ligne</li>
<li>flog
<ol>
<li>log</li>
<li>bog</li>
<li>dog  </li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<hr />

Awesome!