[text][index](url) syntax

[Sherwood Botsford]

This is one of those specialist apps that needs a post processing script.

Define them as end notes.  The script reparses the markdown document and
re-inserts them inline as inline HTML  A clever
script would allow you to choose to insert every time or just the first
time.  A really clever script would allow you to define each reference ONCE
in a single file, and use that to resolve multiple references in multiple
documents.

This would require re-inventing parts of the MMD parsing tree.

What may be a more general and more valuable mod to MMD would be:

1.  An API that allowed access to the parse tree, after parsing, but before
processing into documents.

2.  Hooks that would allow an intermediate external command to run.

I think MMD has #1 as I vaguely recall that MMD uses XLST as an
intermediate form, although that may be a daunting API to use.


Respectfully,

Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests

Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests --  http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
780-848-2548
50042 Range Rd 31
Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0




On 30 May 2012 22:46, David Chambers <david.chambers.05 at gmail.com> wrote:


> What do you think about that? Godd idea? Crap?

>

>

> Not a good idea, in my opinion. Markdown provides two ways to define

> links, which are sufficient given that one provides the reusability you

> desire. As a reader of a Markdown document, I prefer the links to be in one

> place (generally at the bottom of the document). Inline links are fine,

> too. The option you present would make it difficult to find the URL for a

> link via a quick scan of a document.

>

> David

>

>

> On 30 May 2012 14:14, Alan Hogan <contact at alanhogan.com> wrote:

>

>> I haven’t ever seen that used in plaintext writing before, which would

>> make the syntax probably violate the principle of being derived from email

>> list / plain text patterns.

>>

>> More concerning is that now potentially literal brackets that were

>> adjacent to a link, if anyone had that, would now be linked and more

>> importantly the link text would be hidden. But maybe that’s not so common.

>>

>> Personally, I don’t see why it’s a big problem to just define the link at

>> the bottom if you want to use it in several places.

>>

>> But, you did get me thinking. It would be interesting if there was a

>> magic named link, "ibid.", which always refer to the preceding link, in

>> context. So:

>>

>>    [One](http://one.example.com), [two][ibid.], [three][ibid.],

>> [four][], [five][ibid.]

>>

>>    [four]: http://four.example.com

>>

>> Would generate three links to one.example.com and two to four.example.com

>> .

>>

>> (If the user had manually defined a link named "ibid." then that would

>> take precedence over the magic implementation. And of course, the first

>> link in the document cannot be an 'ibid.' link; I suppose the behavior

>> should be to either output a link with no href value or just emit the plain

>> text.)

>>

>> On May 30, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Jakob wrote:

>>

>> > Hi there! I wanted to drop a line on the markdown syntax used for links:

>> >

>> > When i reference to [some website][1] and want to do [the same

>> reference][1] later ai can only do this in endnote style (or howeer it's

>> called). What i would want to be able to do is to make [an inline reference

>> to a website][2](http://anotherexample.com) and be able to reuse [that

>> reference][2] just the same.

>> >

>> > What do you think about that? Godd idea? Crap?

>> >

>> > Regards,

>> >

>> > Jakov

>> >

>> > [1]: http://example.com

>> >

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