I'm trying to document a codebase in markdown, and finding it difficult to include links inside my code examples. If I were writing HTML, I'd write:
<code>perl <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/";>Markdown.pl</a> < input.md</code> But, there doesn't seem to be a way to achieve this in Markdown, because any markup i include inside backticks gets HTML encoded (as it should). The closest I can do in markdown is: `perl` [`Markdown.pl`](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) `< input.md` Which renders as <p><code>perl</code> <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/";><code>Markdown.pl</code></a> <code>< input.md</code></p> but is fraught with style issues. Not only is a space a different width outside <code>, but the theme I'm using puts a background and borders on code tags. As a workaround, would you be willing to allow _DoCodeSpans to preserve leading & trailing white space inside the backticks? --- Markdown.pl.orig 2018-08-24 08:47:13.603707569 -0400 +++ Markdown.pl 2018-08-24 08:48:46.949349781 -0400 @@ -983,8 +983,6 @@ (?!`) @ my $c = "$2"; - $c =~ s/^[ \t]*//g; # leading whitespace - $c =~ s/[ \t]*$//g; # trailing whitespace $c = _EncodeCode($c); "<code>$c</code>"; @egsx; With this patch, markdown like this: `perl `[`Markdown.pl`](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)` < input.md` renders as <p><code>perl </code><a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/";><code>Markdown.pl</code></a><code> < input.md</code></p> with the whitespace inside the <code> and no space between the </code> and the <a>, making it easier to clean up the look of the resulting webpage with CSS. Thanks very much for your time & for Markdown. -Dan _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
