Markdown link not parsed when prepended with `[Text] `

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Example

[Text] Link

Link [Text] Link

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This works on
http://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/

So it will likely get resolved when Discourse moves to it.

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Are we migrating from markdown to this new thing, then?

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It will still be markdown, just an actual spec.

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From the CommonMark website:

##Why is CommonMark needed?
John Gruber’s canonical description of Markdown’s syntax does not specify the syntax unambiguously.

In the absence of a spec, early implementers consulted the original Markdown.pl code to resolve these ambiguities. But Markdown.pl was quite buggy, and gave manifestly bad results in many cases, so it was not a satisfactory replacement for a spec. Markdown.pl was last updated December 17th, 2004.

Because there is no unambiguous spec, implementations have diverged considerably over the last 10 years. As a result, users are often surprised to find that a document that renders one way on one system (say, a GitHub wiki) renders differently on another (say, converting to docbook using Pandoc). To make matters worse, because nothing in Markdown counts as a “syntax error,” the divergence often isn’t discovered right away.

There’s no standard test suite for Markdown; MDTest is the closest thing we have. The only way to resolve Markdown ambiguities and inconsistencies is Babelmark, which compares the output of 20+ implementations of Markdown against each other to see if a consensus emerges.

We propose a standard, unambiguous syntax specification for Markdown, along with a suite of comprehensive tests to validate Markdown implementations against this specification. We believe this is necessary, even essential, for the future of Markdown.

That’s what we call CommonMark.

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Rebaked OP and all appears to be working now!

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