Is that syntax defined by the markdown spec? Because I would expect that it would result in you having lots of trailing <a> tags.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 06:03:32PM -0800, Aleksa Sarai wrote:

Is that syntax defined by the markdown spec?

From the spec 1:

For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply
use HTML itself…
…
Span-level HTML tags — e.g. , , or — can be used
anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. If you want,
you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting; e.g. if
you’d prefer to use HTML or tags instead of Markdown’s
link or image syntax, go right ahead.

So what @RobDolinMS has with e6fd589 is legal, although I'd prefer
moving to a markup language with better support for long-form docs
(#615).

needs a rebase

Needs rebase.

@RobDolinMS when you have time please rebase your PRs and make sure your sign off is correct. Feel free to reopen when they have been updated.