For your immediate perusal and swift renouncement: RedCloth 2.0.2. To upgrade: raa-install -i redcloth RedCloth is a module for using Textile in Ruby. Textile is a text format. A very simple text format. Another stab at making readable text that can be converted to HTML. I'm using Textile to write the (Poignant) Guide. It's been a real angel. (But it didn't have to die to become one -- it's that good.) If you like the formatting of the Guide, I'd check out Textile. Smart quotes, cooperative with css. Many have written about 2.0.1 saying that it couldn't handle Dean Allen's test input. [1] Sure enough. Well, give this a whirl, should be fully sutured. There are two people as well, Bret Pettichord and David Heinemeier Hansson, who have been instrumental in filing bugs and testing this particular fabric. So, thank you Inspectors 9 and 73. _why [1] http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.html?sample=2