I’ve been using Markdown for well over a decade now. How did I only recently learn that link reference names weren’t limited to numbers 🙄?
From the official markdown syntax documentation:
Link definition names may consist of letters, numbers, spaces, and punctuation — but they are not case sensitive.
And even better, a convenient shortcut:
The implicit link name shortcut allows you to omit the name of the link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name. Just use an empty set of square brackets
The Markdown processor I use goes one step further. You can leave out the empty square brackets as well.
Boy, does that improve readability!
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