Better Markdown in Site Updates

Let me just say that I believe this latest update will be awesome¹. It should enhance and fix the current Markdown² formatting.

I think I've found a better tool for converting Markdown, so add-on features that I've tried to include before (and it broke everything) should (key word should) work smoothly now.

NOTE: Any of your existing entries and comments should not be affected by this update.

So here's what's changing...

First

Line breaks.
Line breaks should just happen now if you hit the Enter key, even if there is no blank line to separate paragraphs.
HTML with line breaks inside the tags should still work fine (like codes pulled from Photobucket).
Dude!³

Second

Underscores inside of words should no longer be converted to a partially italicized word by Markdown. So, in theory, your links shouldn't break like they used to.

oh_hooray_how_happy

Third

Strikethrough!

If you want to strike out words, you can do that using Markdown now, like so:

If you want to ~~strike out~~ words, you can do that using Markdown

Fourth

Footnotes. Oh yes, glorious⁴ footnotes!

They are pretty easy. Just insert a footnote like so:

This word[^1] needs a footnote.

And then, at the end of your entry, add the footnote definition like so:

[^1]: Word to your mother.

Fifth

Tables!

Say you want to make a little table in your entry and you don't want to mess around with HTML. You can do it like so:

Band|Type
----------------|------------
Led Zeppelin|Rock
The Beatles|Pop
Nirvana|Grunge
Nickelback|Crap

Notice that you are basically just drawing a table with vertical bars (|) and dashes (-), and they don't actually have to line up. This gives you:

Summary

The first three items should apply to both entries and comments. Items 4 and 5 are just for entries, and most likely won't work inside comments. There may be more things, but that's all I can think of for now. As always, if I've horribly broke something, let me know.