#4422 Markdown: the square brackets in artifact links are visible [26204]
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/26204
Looking at https://sourceforge.net/u/simonjwright/gnatpmake/home/Home/, the artifact link in the last-but-one paragraph is shown with the square brackets that delimit it in the source.
Personally, I think the brackets are fine, but what do you guys think?
We aren't going to change how we process & display artifact links.
Originally by: amangold
I also noticed this when upgrading my project to Allura and it surprised me. I would at least recommend to change the source code formatting documentation then, which shows all the links without the square brackets. Besides this, I see no advantage of the brackets, and they distract from reading the text.
We have ticket [#4474] to make the formatting of markdown files in code repos work the same as markdown everywhere else.
One reason to include the brackets is that they can be used to reference items besides wiki pages, like tickets, code revisions, or forum thread ids. It can be helpful to delineate those links, and make it obvious how to make your own such links.
If you don't want the brackets to show, you can provide alternate text to the link. It's more verbose though. Example:
[Asking Questions](Asking Questions)Related
Tickets:
#4474Originally by: *anonymous
Thank you, Dave. I can live with that. Maybe I am spoilt by MediaWiki :)