--- lcrocker(a)nupedia.com wrote:
The first thing I'd like to do is eliminate the
non-bracketed
external URL syntax. Specifically, I'd like to keep
the single-
bracket syntax [url text] for external URLs, and
double brackets
for internal page links and images, and eliminate
entirely the
interpretation of URLs in plain text. It would
simplify the
syntax, eliminate the problem of punctuation after
URLs, it would
make all the image links report correctly (ones that
look external
don't show up as links on the image's page), and
eliminate a whole
bug-prone pass in the interpreter. I's also
eliminate the auto-
numbering thing and make a bracketed simple URL
without text just
show the URL like an unbracketed one does now.
I have one problem and one request. First, the
problem.
I think parsing [
http://www.someurl.com] as <a
href="http://www.someurl.com">[1]</a> is very useful
for documenting sources within articles, particularly
quotes from web-accessible material. See the
breastfeeding article, for example.
And now the request. When placing external links at
the bottom of an article, I currently use just the
bare URL plus a separate description (e.g.
http://www.someurl.com -- An excellent example of what
this article is talking about). I do this instead of
[
http://www.someurl.com description] because if
someone want to print the article, the URL would be
lost. However, I think it makes things look messy.
Would it be possible to have [
http://www.someurl.com
description] expanded in the printable version?
Stephen G.
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