Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread Alan Hogan
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

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Wow, that was a quick reply! Yes, indeed, I was putting a space between ] and (. I have corrected that and now both the links work as they should :-). May I ask a supplementary question please: How are em-dashes and en-dashes handled in Markdown? Thank you. Chandra On Friday 13 January

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread David Chambers
How are em-dashes and en-dashes handled in Markdown? You can include Unicode characters in Markdown documents, so go ahead and use the actual characters if you want to. On OS X, ⌥- produces an en dash and ⇧⌥- an em dash. Many Markdown implementations offer extensions which allow -- to be used

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, that was a quick reply! Yes, indeed, I was putting a space between ] and (. I have corrected that and now both the links work as they should :-). May I ask a supplementary question please: How are

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 14 January 2012 12:05 AM, David Chambers wrote: How are em-dashes and en-dashes handled in Markdown? You can include Unicode characters in Markdown documents, so go ahead and use the actual characters if you want to. On OS X, ⌥- produces an en dash and ⇧⌥- an em dash. Many

Re: Inline HTML link and mailto: link

2012-01-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Saturday 14 January 2012 12:06 AM, Waylan Limberg wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com wrote: May I ask a supplementary question please: How are em-dashes and en-dashes handled in Markdown? They aren't. You may want to check out