Submitting isues via .text files

[John Gruber]

Jérôme Verzier <jverzier at gmail.com> wrote on 01/05/05 at 8:29pm:

> Also, I installed Smarty Pants and Markdown. But the point is that
> when I publish an issue using "Markdown with Smartypants", I can't
> access the .text file. He does not exist.
> 
> Maybe I'm doing someting wrong. Can you help me please ?

Are you referring to the way that my articles at Daring Fireball are
available in two formats, including plain text:

  <http://daringfireball.net/2005/01/plugging_leaks>
  <http://daringfireball.net/2005/01/plugging_leaks.text>

If so, that's a bit of MT jiggery-pokery that I've put together
myself, and isn't a feature that occurs automatically just because
you use Markdown or SmartyPants. I do plan to explain how it's done,
but haven't found time yet. (The short answer: I have two individual
archive templates; one that generates HTML files (the regular pages)
and one that generates plain text pages (the .text pages). The plain
text template uses Markdown.pl's 

    <MTMarkdownOptions output='raw'>

MT template tag to generate output where Markdown-formatted entries
aren't translated to HTML, but instead are published "raw".

-J.G.