From FormatBreaks to Markdown

[Jay Allen]

Hi all,

After MUCH debugging, I have finally figured out why Markdown was not 
actually converting my Markdown-marked-up entries: Brad Choate's 
FormatBreaks plugin requires a convert_breaks="0" on the chosen MT tags 
and this supresses Markdown as well as all other Text Formatting 
plugins.

Ironic considering that I wrote recently about lock in: 
http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2004/03/the_cms_and_inline_html

Anyhow, now I'm in a bit of a pickle.  If I remove the 
convert_breaks="0" from <$MTEntryBody$> and its brethren in favor of 
using Markdown, all previous non-Markdown entries will be utterly 
wacked.  Might any of you see a clear path[1] through this jungle of 
conversion?

John, you may also want to make a note on the site about this in order 
to save other idiots like myself some time.

Thanks in advance,
-j-
http://www.jayallen.org/

[1] - And by clear path, I mean one that is not going to take me a full 
24 hours or more to do and does not involve using MT's export and 
import functionality which as everyone knows is about as useful as -- 
well, actually, I can't think of anything that is either equally useful 
or less so.