Formatting MTEntryKeywords, MTEntryExcerpt with Markdown

[John Gruber]

Jacob Patton <patton at freetheslaves.net> wrote on 02/02/05 at 1:31pm:

> I'm following Brad Choate's instructions (http://tinyurl.com/42cr8) for 
> using Movable Type with Smarty templates, and I've run into some 
> difficulty formatting the MT keywords and excerpts with Markdown.  
> Hopefully somebody here can help.

I have about this much experience with MT's dynamic PHP mode: [].

So, I don't know the answer.

I do know that with MT's regular static Perl mode, you only get text
filtering on the MTEntryBody and MTEntryMore fields. If you want a
text filter like Markdown or Markdown With SmartyPants to be applied
to another field, like MTEntryExcerpt, you need to specify the
filter in a 'filter' attribute. For example, I use Markdown With
SmartyPants filtering on the MTEntryExcerpt field in my regular RSS
feed. Here's the relevent portion of the template:

    <description>
    <$MTEntryExcerpt filters='markdown_with_smartypants' encode_xml='1'$>
    </description>

Hope this helps,

-J.G.