attribute blocks for definition lists

[Alan Hogan]

On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:33 AM, Matthieu Codron <codronm+markdown at gmail.com> wrote:


> As I am using markdown to write documentation, I am often tempted to make links to terms in definition lists.

> 

> Since this is not possible for now (at least in php markdown extra), […]


It is. You just have to write your anchors manually.

~~~~~
Term <a id="my-term"></a>

: Definition

~~~~~


On Jul 1, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Andy Lee <aglee at mac.com> wrote:


> Out of curiosity, do I understand correctly that

> 

> term

> : definition

> 

> is already in common usage when people write plain text?  I was not aware of that, so if so, I may start adopting it in my own emails etc.


I have only ever seen it in Markdown source. It’s much more natural to use a trailing colon after the term.

Alan