Inline HTML link and mailto: link

[Alan Hogan]

Are you putting spaces between ] and ( ? You shouldn't. 

ajh

On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:52 AM, "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chyavana at gmail.com> wrote:


> Dear Folks,

> 

> I am just starting out with Markdown and am trying to get two elements working:

> 

> (1) An inline HTML link; and

> 

> (2) An inline mailto: link

> 

> as shown in the text below:

> 

> We invite you to [browse] (http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html) this website. Take a look and see if you find anything useful. And do [drop us a line] (mailto:feedback at swanlotus.com) with your comments for improvement.

> 

> I tried it out on Dingus and failed to get the expected HTML version like:

> 

> We invite you to <a href="http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html">browse</a> this website. Take a look and see if you find anything useful. And do <a href="mailto:feedback at swanlotus.com">drop us a line</a> with your comments for improvement.

> 

> Instead, Dingus gave me:

> 

> We invite you to [browse] (http://academy.swanlotus.com/index.html) this website. Take a look and see if you find anything useful. And do [drop us a line] (mailto:feedback at swanlotus.com) with your comments for improvement.

> 

> This is my first experience with Markdown, although I am conversant with HTML and very conversant with LaTeX.

> 

> What am I doing wrong and why am I not getting the expected HTML markup?

> 

> FYI, I am on Kubuntu 11.10 using Markdown, version 1.0.1 from the standard .deb package.

> 

> Thanks in advance.

> 

> Chandra

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