Are you putting spaces between ] and ( ? You shouldn't. ajh
On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:52 AM, "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chyav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am just starting out with Markdown and am trying to get two elements > working: > > (1) An inline HTML link; and > > (2) An inline mailto: link > > as shown in the text below: > > We invite you to [browse] (http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html) this > website. Take a look and see if you find anything useful. And do [drop us a > line] (mailto:feedb...@swanlotus.com) with your comments for improvement. > > I tried it out on Dingus and failed to get the expected HTML version like: > > We invite you to <a href="http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html";>browse</a> > this website. Take a look and see if you find anything useful. And do <a > href="mailto:feedb...@swanlotus.com";>drop us a line</a> with your comments > for improvement. > > Instead, Dingus gave me: > > We invite you to [browse] (http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html) this > website. Take a look and see if you find anything useful. And do [drop us a > line] (mailto:feedb...@swanlotus.com) with your comments for improvement. > > This is my first experience with Markdown, although I am conversant with HTML > and very conversant with LaTeX. > > What am I doing wrong and why am I not getting the expected HTML markup? > > FYI, I am on Kubuntu 11.10 using Markdown, version 1.0.1 from the standard > .deb package. > > Thanks in advance. > > Chandra > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
