Revised - Revised 2005 proposal for meta-data

[Jacob Rus]

Michel Fortin wrote:

> John Gruber wants to introduce the  

> [single braket] syntax as a shortcut for reference-style links in a  

> future version of Markdown.[^1] 

> 

> [^1]: That future is not so far away: the shortcut reference-style  

> link syntax is currently implemented in the latest 1.0.2 betas and  

> present but commented out in the current PHP Markdown & Extra releases.


Wait, he does?  That seems like a somewhat bad idea, likely to break all 
sorts of existing uses.  How is someone supposed to write [sic], for 
example?