link soup

[John Gruber]

Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 08/16/05 at 5:27 pm:


> Feel free to put the `<sup>` tag inside the link if you prefer (but  

> in that case you must escape the "Bush & Kerry 2004" opening square  

> bracket).


Why would he need to escape the opening square bracket?

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

Turns into:

    <p>A reference [Bush &amp; Kerry 2004]<a href="#1"><sup id="A1">1<sup 
        id="A1"></a>x.</p>

And in any case, you can always just use two spaces between bracketed text to be clear:

    [this is text in brackets]  [foo](/foo/)
    
    [this is a link to foo] [foo](/foo/)
    
      [foo]: http://foo.com/

Turns into:

    <p>[this is text in brackets]  <a href="/foo/">foo</a></p>
    
    <p><a href="http://foo.com/">this is a link to foo</a>(/foo/)</p>

-J.G.