Feature Request External label resolution

[John MacFarlane]

Pandoc concatenates input from all files specified on the command
line.  So you can just do:

    pandoc myfile.txt refs.txt > myfile.html

Seems to me that this would be a reasonable default behavior for
Markdown.pl as well, but it doesn't seem to work that way now.

John

+++ Sherwood Botsford [Apr 19 08 16:28 ]:

> One of the things I'm coming up against.  Maintaining a non-small

> web site with many internal links is a pain.

>

> Consider:

>

> Suppose that at one point I have

>

> site/

>   Images

>   Business

>   Home

>   ...

>

> Later the site gets more complex, and Images has a bunch of sub  

> directories.

> site/

>   Images

>     header_rotate

>     inventory_pix

>     misc

>   Business

>   Home

>

> When this happens I have to change the link for every pic

> on every page.  If I use an image in 6 places, I have to

> change it in 6 places.

>

> HOWEVER

>

> Suppose I cleverly used the footnote form of links.

>

> I.e:

>

> [Image alt text][LABEL]

>

> Suppose that markdown was clever enough to reference an external

> file (in .markdownrc of course) for the resolution of LABEL.

>

> NOW when I re-arrange the universe, I only have to change the reference 

> in this one file, NOT in every file that references it.

>

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