link soup

[Mark Smith]

@ 00:56 on 16.8.05, John Gruber wrote:


>Why would he need to escape the opening square bracket?


Right. Its not necessary. I included it in the example with the
intention of making it obvious that "[Bush & Kerry 2004]" was not
intended to be part of any link. With all the stuff in the immediate
vicinity, I felt the intention might otherwise be unclear. In my usual
input, I'd use the extra space facility.

I'm looking at various "Journal-like" output styles that take one of
these general input forms:

(assuming one of the proposed footnote syntaxes)

    
A.      blah blah [^Citation] blah blah  
        [^Citation]: details [Linkout][]  
        [Linkout]: myURL  
        
        
B.      blah blah [Citation][Linkout] [^Distinct Footnote] blah blah  
        [linkout]: myURL  
        [^Distinct Footnote]: details  
        
        
C.      blah blah [Citation]  [^Distinct Footnote] blah blah  
        [^Distinct Footnote]: details [Linkout][]  
        [Linkout]: myURL     
        
        
A is going to cover most, but sadly not all cases. The original example
was a version of B. Its (currently) the least elegant on the input side
(IMO) and will likely be the rarest of the three.

mark.