Extending RedCloth
RedCloth is Ruby’s Textile module. Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen that allows a user to create well-formed styled XHTML. This site employes the RedCloth Textile module through the acts_as_textiled plugin. The nice thing about RedCloth is it is faily easy to extend the markup which it recognies. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to render [latex]\LaTeX{}[/latex] in your site by extending RedCloth.
