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Comment author: wedrifid 09 July 2013 03:13:24PM 2 points [-]

{Totally irrelevant remark: The squiggly brackets are because [this sort] which I'd normally use for noting what I've edited interacts badly with the Markdown hyperlink syntax.}

The escape character, which solves this and various other potential problems, is "\".

Comment author: gjm 09 July 2013 03:19:22PM *  0 points [-]

Ah yes. Thanks. After a little experimentation, it transpires that what is needed to fix the problem is escaping the opening square bracket of the non-hyperlink text; escaping the closing square bracket is harmless but unnecessary.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 July 2013 04:06:48PM 5 points [-]

Ah yes. Thanks. After a little experimentation, it transpires that what is needed to fix the problem is escaping the opening square bracket of the non-hyperlink text; escaping the closing square bracket is harmless but unnecessary.

Yes, Markdown is robust like that. Which is sometimes a nuisance. You can get away with writing underscored_words but a second underscore fucksitup.

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