Hyperlinks don't work properly in email posts to markdown-enabled blog?

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    kj6jzk · Member ·

    Hyperlinks don’t work properly in email posts to markdown-enabled blog. The bare hyperlink inside of the markdown punctuation is converted to HTML, ignoring the markdown punctuation that surrounds it. For example, ‘[Google](http://www.google.com)’ ends up as ‘[Google](http://www.google.com)’.

    The same problem occurs if the markdown text is sent as an attachment. The problem is not the result of the email program changing the email body text.

    The problem only occurs when when the markdown document is posted via email.

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    kj6jzk · Member ·

    Unfortunately, the support forum messed up my example by automatically converting the “ends up as” example. I’ll try again:

    [Google](http://www.google.com) ends up as [Google](<a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a>)

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    spongebelly · Member ·

    Hi Kj6jzk, :-)

    I experienced the same problem you described.

    The workaround is to use reference links instead of inline links.

    Rewrite your example as:

    [Google][1]

    ...

    [1]: http://www.google.com/ "Google"

    It worked for me!

    Also, put a space between the hash and the text in headers.

    HTH!

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    spongebelly · Member ·

    Argh!

    That should be:

    [Google][1]

    ...

    [1]: http://www.google.com/ "Google"

    BFN!

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