yshavit
commented
3 months ago It looks like:
- collapsed links
[text][]were in the original markdown spec, called "implicit link name": https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link - they do not seem to be in this (unofficial) guide: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#links
- they are in CommonMark: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#collapsed-reference-link
- they are in GFM: https://github.github.com/gfm/#collapsed-reference-link
Right now, we have three options for handling link definitions (including images):
[text][1]In the last option, we do at least collapsed links (
[text][]) and shortcut links ([text]) slightly differently, in that rather than just assigning them a number, we have the full-reference id be the expanded text:[text][]->[text][text][text]->[text][text]This is pretty ugly and awkward. I should add an option (maybe have it be default? maybe have it be the only option) to keep collapsed and shortcut links as-is, or maybe canonicalize them to either collapsed or shortcut; or maybe just auto-assign a number to them. But basically, the current approach is pretty ugly, especially if the text is a bit longish.
I should also review the various markdown specs to see how portable collapsed/shortcut links are.