One of the things I used heavily in MT was the body/extended body trick. I wanted to continue that with Textpattern, but it involved some hacks to how TXP handles excerpts.

This is a simple hack to add one of my favorite MT-plugins, Brad Choate's MTMacros [bradchoate.com], to textpattern.

Granted, I didn't pull the entire kaboodle. This doesn't do fun container logic and acronym matching, etc. But it does do simple string replacement, which is what I used it for (e.g. smilies and pretty attributions).