Textile or Markdown?
Good readability helps improve perception. Rich formatting is very important for issue tracking software as it allows us to highlight more important things, in this way drawing special attention to them. In Redmine, rich formatting can be achieved using a lightweight markup language—Textile or Markdown—and is supported almost in every text area. Both of these markup languages use plain-text formatting syntax.
Textile has been used by Redmine as the default and the only available formatter for many years. It is greatly supported and perfectly tested. Any experienced Redmine user is familiar with Textile and many Redmine plugins extend its syntax. Particularly for these reasons, the majority of Redmine installations, including ...
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