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Two square-bracketed expressions with a space between lose the space

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David Chapman

31 Mar, 2015 07:48 AM

If I have the text [foo] [bar] — there is a space between the first ] and the second [ — it gets lossed by the multimarkdown processor. So the output is [foo][bar] (no space).

Is this the indended behavior, or a bug?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Fletcher on 31 Mar, 2015 01:07 PM

   

   David,

   `[foo] [bar]` (with space) and `[foo][bar]` (without space) are the same
   (assuming that there is not another `[foo2]` preceding this string) --
   both represent a link labelled `bar` and defined elsewhere.

   If `[bar]` is not defined, then there is no link to insert, so the
   original text is recreated with `[description][label]`.

   If you don't want a link, then you should escape something (e.g. the
   leading `[` or the space) so that it is not treated like a link.

   Fletcher

   PS> Questions about MultiMarkdown itself are best addressed on the MMD
   site (http://fletcherpenney.net/mmd). This site is for MultiMarkdown
   Composer.

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2. 2 Posted by David Chapman on 31 Mar, 2015 10:30 PM

   

   Thanks, I'll follow up over on the correct site!

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3. Fletcher closed this discussion on 21 Aug, 2015 09:17 PM.