As you might know, this site is created with Nanoblogger and Markdown. This setup works nice and almost completely as I want it.
What I didn’t like was the fact that every link opens in the current page. I think (and you may disagree, yes really, you may) that an external link can be opened in a different tab or window.
So I patched the Markdown Perl script and added an extra option for links.
Now I can define two sorts of links:
The internal (opens in the same window or tab):
[Link text](the URL to the link)
The external (opens in a new window or tab):
[Link text](the URL to the link)
Note the subtle difference between the two. The internal uses
() and the external {}.
Just take a look at the patched Markdown.pl
Update 1
When I was generating my complete site I noticed that something broke the W3C compliance. Looking into it I found that it had to do with the patched Markdown.pl. It introduced a underscore and further in the process it is translated into some HTML-code.
I’ve corrected the problem and a new Markdown.pl is now available.