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> [John Fraser:] Being able to wrap Markdown text in divs and spans ... I find div and span tags quite useful. Here is an example of the syntax I'm presently using. [[ {#orchard} Contents of div here. And ~this{.plum}~ is how I do spans. ]] becomes <div id="orchard"> <p>Contents of div here. And <span class="plum">this</span> is how I do

I also agree that single bracket reference-style syntax is not prudent. As Jacob suggested, it creates ambiguity for the reader (Is it an edit or a link?). It also creates a new problem of potential conflict, however rare that may be. It seems reasonable to prefix a marker colon (possibly followed by whitespace): [:ref link] or [: ref link] And perhaps the same for attributes: {:att ref} or {:

I searched the list but didn't find an answer to this question. Why is the caret[^c] preferred over the asterisk[*a] for footnote markers? [^c]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret [*a]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk