Textile works by allowing you to type in plain text, and have that text be converted to HTML in a way you would expect.
For instance, instead of inserting <p> tags around your paragraphs, just hit the enter key twice. Textile will enclose the blocks of text that look like paragraphs in the proper tags.
Header: hn. Blockquote: bq. Footnote: fnn. Numeric list: # Bulleted list: *
_emphasis_ *strong* ??reference?? -deleted text- +inserted text+ ^superscript^ ~subscript~ %span%
(class)
(#id)
{style}
[language]
< right > left = center <> justify
|a|table|row|
"linktext":url
!imageurl!
ABC(Always Be Closing)
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