# New blog post: Switching to Markdown for Post Source Format

**URL:** <https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/new-blog-post-switching-to-markdown-for-post-source-format/2292>\
**Category:** News\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/new-blog-post-switching-to-markdown-for-post-source-format/2292 "2020-05-05T20:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobrowser](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/nobrowser/32/1387_2.png) [@nobrowser](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/nobrowser)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/new-blog-post-switching-to-markdown-for-post-source-format/2292/1 "2020-05-05T20:30:19Z")

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Will appear at this location really soon (will edit this when live):

[https://very.loosely.org/itz-blog/switching-to-markdown-for-post-source-format.html](https://very.loosely.org/itz-blog/switching-to-markdown-for-post-source-format.html)

Live now.

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**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/user_avatar/forum.codeselfstudy.com/josh/32/4_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/u/Josh)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.codeselfstudy.com/t/new-blog-post-switching-to-markdown-for-post-source-format/2292/2 "2020-05-05T20:46:38Z")

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My only complaint with Org Mode format is the inline code formatting uses equals signs. So you can’t write `const f = x = 2 ** x;` and have it formatted as code, because the equals signs in the code itself break the markup.

```nohighlight
To format as inline code in Org Mode you wrap in equals signs =like this=,
which doesn't work for actual code.

```

I wonder if anyone has found a way around that (or if I’m misunderstanding something about Org Mode), because it’s a major annoyance that makes me wish my notes were in Markdown. 🤔

Other than that I like most things about Org Mode.

**Edit:** actually, there might be a way. I just looked it up and found [a possible (verbose) solution](https://orgmode.org/org.html#Structure-of-Code-Blocks). It looks like you can also wrap with tildes, but that doesn’t work for code that has both equals signs and tildes. 🤔