i keep meaning to make a markdown/kareha style post formatter that rewrites *italic*, `code`, and so forth as bbcode tags ... and maybe with a preview function that actually works, too. i have tried that "expert bbcode framework", but i found it to be quite buggy and unsatisfactory: it doesn't support blockquotes, doesn't apply that text highlighting hook to code blocks, and messes up various other things as well. but, i don't post here enough for such a thing to really be useful.