The standalone 'markdown' utility is perfectly happy with an external link inside a `

`, e.g.: # Review of [Dwarf Fortress][] ... [Dwarf Fortress]: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ produces

Review of Dwarf Fortress

but when I try to use this construct in an ikiwiki page, I get

Review of [Dwarf Fortress][]

It works fine with h2 and deeper. The square brackets also appear in the output of an [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] directive in archive mode, I haven't tried non-archive mode. > I think you were confused by markdown's slightly wacky mix of square brackets and parens. > The url in a markdown link goes in parens, not square brackets. For example: # [Google](http://google.com/) > [[done]] --[[Joey]] >> It works here but it definitely does *not* work on my wiki; but on further experimentation, I believe my problem is being caused by JasonBlevins' [h1title](http://jblevins.org/git/ikiwiki/plugins.git/plain/h1title.pm) plugin.