link soup

[Mark Smith]

Thanks for the tips Michel,

@ 23:27 on 16.8.05, Michel Fortin wrote:


>Le 16 août 2005 à 13:38, Mark Smith a écrit :

>

>> I'm hoping that my inexperience is the culprit here. Is there

>> currently a(n) better/tidier/easier way to do this type of

>> thing ?

>

>Well, you could always use inline links like `[text](#1)`


Yes, I'd mulled this over and see that it saves a little typing, but I'm
undecided about whether the input reads better. You think it does ?


>with PHP Markdown Extra you could do this:


Nice. I'm on Markdown.pl at the moment though and will likely remain
with it for the time being. It just works in my setting and thats a
boon...


>     A reference [Bush & Kerry 2004]<sup id="A1">[1](#1)</sup>.


...indeed. Some wins here. This exact syntax won't produce acceptable
output, but it gives me some ideas that I can try until a new version
with footnote support comes out. Thanks. I'd probably have stumble on
this idea at some point, but it may have taken a while.


>Take note that an id of "1" is invalid according to HTML spec which  

>must begin by a letter:


Yes. I picked those tokens because they were easy to type. I was typing
a lot of link/footnote groups today. /glance at clock... oops, make that
yesterday.

mark.