This isn’t a bona fide TextMate theme in that it has no effect on the fonts & colors in your main editing window, but it styles the preview window in Markdown (or blogging) mode, as well as the subversion windows (click the thumbnails just above to see bigger pictures).

The “virtuoso” theme is modeled from this very site and handles tags like big, small, strong, emphasized, kbd, abbreviations and acronyms, code, insertions, deletions, quotations, citations, super^script, sub_script etc. Smashing, really. You can explore the elements and classes in style.css to get an idea of what’s possible, or just look at the styles used on this site.

But that’s enough talk, you have to see it for yourself to really appreciate it. Download the archive, then extract it to ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Themes/WebPreview/. You may need to restart TextMate, then you’ll see “virtuoso” among the list of themes in the Markdown preview or subversion window.

The added benefit of this (for me) is being able to preview what a blog post is going to look like, so I don’t have to mess with WordPress until I’ve got the entire post written.

Please feel free to heap praise upon or post constructive criticism on this. I value your comments.

Fixed compatibility with other themes. Improved overall appearance.