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Re:Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by chc4 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:32PM (#15323167)
I struggled with it, until I learned about "reference style" links in the original Markdown spec:

this is a link [1]

[1]: <link>

would display 1 and direct you to <link>. Then inline links are just reference links but you have the location in parenthesis after the link body, as an aside.

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Re:Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by lloeki on Sunday September 24, 2017 @05:37PM (#15326614)
The reference style is my mnemonic to the order as well as where the parentheses are for non-reference links: since the reference definition uses []: then the reference uses [] too, and since the reference comes naturally after the text, then a non-ref link has the URL in not-[], hence (), and after the text too.

IOW I just think about "inlining" the reference, which would have otherwise used [] everywhere. Feels much more regular that way around.

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