Support for markdown reference link syntax as well as inline syntax

[paulspencerwilliams]

Whilst writing a simple html scraper to generate the required json for importing into Ghost, I've hit a problem. The html -> markdown service I'm using converts html anchor tags into reference style links as described on the official markdown syntax page.

This syntax appears to work when viewing a full blog post but doesn't render correctly in the blog list page, nor in the editor.

I'm using ghost.org hosting thus running version 0.4.1.

[ErisDS]

Can you please provide a sample of the markdown that was generated?

[paulspencerwilliams]

Sorry, this is the json I scrapped and uploaded to the ghost.org service including the markdown attribute.

{"posts_tag":[],"tags":[],"meta":{"exported_on":1393622680831,"version":"000"},"data":{"posts":[{"status":"published","slug":"Llynnau Mymbyr","featured":0,"meta_description":null,"updated_at":1334012400000,"created_by":1,"page":0,"updated_by":1,"image":null,"language":"en_GB","title":"Llynnau Mymbyr","created_at":1334012400000,"markdown":"![8055881557_58006d8962_b.jpg][1]\n\nI took this shot on the way up to my first wildcamp of 2012 on Moel Siabod.\n\n   [1]: http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8040\/8055881557_58006d8962_b.jpg (Sunset over Llynnau Mymbyr)\n","meta_title":"Llynnau Mymbyr","published_by":1,"author_id":1,"id":1,"published_at":1334012400000}]}}

[ErisDS]

Thanks

[paulspencerwilliams]

@ErisDS oh, and congrats on moving your blog over to ghost. I've migrated one from wordpress.com, one from octopress markdown, and this is the last blog. Unfortunately, I lost the markdown, hence writing a scrapper in Clojure; any excuse to write some code ;-)

[ErisDS]

@paulspencerwilliams All my WP content was soooo old.. I couldn't decide whether to keep it or not :/

... and it's full of PHP 😊

[paulspencerwilliams]

Update, the following markdown is supported:

[![Sunset over Llynnau Mymbyr][image-1]][2]

I took this shot on the way up to my first wildcamp of 2012 on Moel Siabod.


[image-1]: http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8040/8055881557_58006d8962_b.jpg
[2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/goatifiedcreature/8055881557/

although the previously updated content has the initially described errors

![8055881557_58006d8962_b.jpg][1]\n\nI took this shot on the way up to my first wildcamp of 2012 on Moel Siabod.\n\n   [1]: http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8040\/8055881557_58006d8962_b.jpg (Sunset over Llynnau Mymbyr)\n

[ErisDS]

I'm completely confused now - can you perhaps update the original issue to follow the bug report format? Including all information and reproduction steps in the original issue, rather than adding via comments. Yep I know - I'm totally asking for you to spell it out, there is so much traffic here that it becomes too much if every issue requires further reading to understand it 😉

Thanks 👍

[paulspencerwilliams]

Will do - off project for a week or so, but do ASAP

[ErisDS]

This isn't going to progress without the new editor. Closing as wontfix against #1294

[yorkxin]

This feature fits my requirement. Would you consider add it back again?

[yorkxin]

Sorry, I was wrong. It was supported. I just put them in <table> so it didn't work. Hopefully one day you can support tables so that I don't have to worry about this anymore :)