Trouble with parentheses in Markdown hyperlinks

[Alan Hogan]

Andrew,

I love your enthusiasm.

I do have to warn you, however. While a number of maintainers have gone to great lengths to maximize interoperability, there *is* no BDFL (benevolent dictator for life) and there *is* no consensus on a number if issues, ambiguities, and extensions.

While most maintainers would *love* a big "multi-dingus" and exhaustive wiki, no one has committed to the effort of setting up and maintaining those; and not ever implementation maintainer would contribute.

I know you ended up here after noticing a quirk on another website, so I don’t expect you to be that person, but I think the community *would* appreciate such a wiki and/or multi-dingus. Just be warned it will not be an easy or quick project!

On Oct 17, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker at gmail.com> wrote:


> 

> Markdown.pl (the original implementation by John Gruber) is basically abandonware at this point

> 

> I thought so! The Markdown home page is so limited/confusing.

>  

> That said, Markdown the *syntax*, is certainly alive and well in the form of multiple descendant projects.

> 

> Yes. I'm happy to see Markdown in more places, especially GitHub. README.txt -> README.md

> 

> I would like to see a centralized, maintained website for Markdown documentation. Perhaps we could start a Markdown-powered wiki!

>  

> Not sure what implementation Stack Overflow is actually using, but clearly some implementations work just fine in this regard.

> 

> Yeah, I'll post on Meta Stack Overflow to request an update of their Markdown parser.

> 

> Back to the discussion on URL parsing...

> 

> Which versions of Markdown would it be reasonable to expect most services to be using by now? Do we have any usage data on the various Markdown implementations?

> 

> -- 

> Cheers,

> 

> Andrew Pennebaker

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