* John Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-25 21:15]:
> This change won't solve the problem for the magic implicit link
> references:
>
> The next line will disappear
> [like this]: here.
>
> One way to address this might be to tighten up the rules for
> what a URL is.
I doubt you can do that without undue restrictions. `here.` might
just as soon be a word as an actual relative link I want to use.
* John Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-25 21:25]:
> After a few more minutes of thought, I'm having a hard time
> coming up with a good reason why `[` and `]` shouldn't just be
> banned characters for link ref IDs.
That was my first thought after reading the previous mail. They
just make short link names harder to read.
However, I am using Markdown on a wiki where I currently
implement internal links simply by doing
[frobnicate the weeblefitzer]: /doc/42
where the link name is just the title of the page at `/doc/42`.
That way I get all the Markup linking features without for
intrawiki links without any effort [^1] – but there might well be
square brackets in it.
It is a rare enough case that requiring backslashes shouldn’t be
onerous, though. So that’s what I’d lean toward.
[^1]: Would that Markdown.pl had an API; then I could simply
`$mkd->add_link( $title => $href);` instead of the current
dirty hack of appending generated Markdown to documents.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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