using Markdown is just gorgeous. But it lacks on some typographic hints.
So using Typogrify improves the readability allot. (That’s more important, the less substance is in your blogs!).
There’s a module for that!
There are Drupal-Modules that offer these functions.
To support ‘GermanQuotes’ I patched the typogrify-Module with the patches provided in the Issue-Queue.
Some examples:
An english text with ‘ls’ or “kmm” as ticks.
so long … and thank’s for the FISH! so long . . .
1st http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.9.tar.gz is out!
2nd --- ,,So kann man es mischen'' >>voila<< ->| <- <<- <= <div>meme ... <=></div>
2nd — „So kann man es mischen” »voila« ⇥ ← ↞ ⇐
meme … ⇔
3rd – 1x24x50