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I struggled with it, until I learned about "reference style" links in the original Markdown spec: this is a link [1] [1]: <link> would display 1 and direct y

by chc4 9y ago

I struggled with it, until I learned about "reference style" links in the original Markdown spec: this is a link [1] [1]: <link> would display 1 and direct you to <link>. Then inline links are just reference links but you have the location in parenthesis after the link body, as an aside.

lloeki 9y ago
The reference style is my mnemonic to the order as well as where the parentheses are for non-reference links: since the reference definition uses []: then the reference uses [] too, and since the reference comes naturally after the text, then a non-ref link has the URL in not-[], hence (), and after the text too. IOW I just think about "inlining" the reference, which would have otherwise used [] everywhere. Feels much more regular that way around.