diff --git a/src/IDF/Template/Markdown.php b/src/IDF/Template/Markdown.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3d37f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/IDF/Template/Markdown.php
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+<?php
+/* -*- tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+# ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
+# This file is part of InDefero, an open source project management application.
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Céondo Ltd and contributors.
+#
+# InDefero is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# InDefero is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+#
+# ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */
+
+Pluf::loadFunction('Pluf_Text_MarkDown_parse');
+
+function IDF_Template_Markdown_filter($mdtext)
+{
+    $filter = new IDF_Template_Markdown();
+    return Pluf_Template::markSafe(Pluf_Text_MarkDown_parse($filter->go($mdtext)));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Strict class to only allow entities.
+ */
+class IDF_Template_Markdown extends Pluf_Text_HTML_Filter
+{
+    public $allowed = array();
+    public $always_close = array();
+    public $remove_blanks = array();
+    public $allowed_entities = array(
+                                     'amp',
+                                     'gt',
+                                     'lt',
+                                     'quot',
+                                     'nbsp',
+                                     'ndash',
+                                     'rdquo',
+                                     'ldquo',
+                                     'Alpha',
+                                     'Beta', 
+                                     'Gamma', 
+                                     'Delta', 
+                                     'Epsilon', 
+                                     'Zeta', 
+                                     'Eta', 
+                                     'Theta', 
+                                     'Iota', 
+                                     'Kappa', 
+                                     'Lambda', 
+                                     'Mu', 
+                                     'Nu', 
+                                     'Xi', 
+                                     'Omicron', 
+                                     'Pi', 
+                                     'Rho', 
+                                     'Sigma', 
+                                     'Tau', 
+                                     'Upsilon', 
+                                     'Phi', 
+                                     'Chi', 
+                                     'Psi', 
+                                     'Omega', 
+                                     'alpha', 
+                                     'beta', 
+                                     'gamma', 
+                                     'delta', 
+                                     'epsilon', 
+                                     'zeta', 
+                                     'eta', 
+                                     'theta', 
+                                     'iota', 
+                                     'kappa', 
+                                     'lambda', 
+                                     'mu', 
+                                     'nu', 
+                                     'xi', 
+                                     'omicron', 
+                                     'pi', 
+                                     'rho', 
+                                     'sigmaf', 
+                                     'sigma', 
+                                     'tau', 
+                                     'upsilon', 
+                                     'phi', 
+                                     'chi', 
+                                     'psi', 
+                                     'omega', 
+                                     'thetasym', 
+                                     'upsih', 
+                                     'piv',
+                                     );
+}
diff --git a/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist b/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist
index d59cf8b..125506b 100644
--- a/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist
+++ b/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ $cfg['template_tags'] = array(
                               );
 $cfg['template_modifiers'] = array(
                                    'size' => 'IDF_Views_Source_PrettySize',
+                                   'markdown' => 'IDF_Template_Markdown_filter',
                                    );
 
 
diff --git a/src/IDF/templates/project-home.html b/src/IDF/templates/project-home.html
index 53b3381..6ceccb5 100644
--- a/src/IDF/templates/project-home.html
+++ b/src/IDF/templates/project-home.html
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {extends "base.html"}
+{block docclass}yui-t2{/block}
 {block tabhome} class="active"{/block}
 {block subtabs}
 <div id="sub-tabs">
@@ -6,7 +7,7 @@
 </div>
 {/block}
 {block body}
-{$project.description}
+{$project.description|markdown}
 {/block}
 {block context}
 {assign $ko = 'owners'}