web commit by tschwinge: Answer.

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@@ -15,7 +15,28 @@ BTW, ikiwiki doesn't displays the #foo anchor in the example
 
 > No such syntax exists in markdown.  ikiwiki could certainly have a
 > [[preprocessor_directive|preprocessordirective]] for it, though.
->
+> --[[JoshTriplett]]
+
+>> [[tag wishlist]]
+>> I'd like to implement such a thing.  Joey, what is this supposed to look like?
+>> `\[[anchor WHATEVER]]`?  --[[tschwinge]]
+
+>>> Why would you want to use a preprocessor directive for something that can
+>>> be more shortly and clearly done with plain HTML? Markdown is *designed*
+>>> to be intermixed with HTML. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> I tend to disagree.
+>>>> It just doesn't feel right for me to put HTML code straight into Markdown files.
+>>>>
+>>>> Quoting <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>:
+>>>>
+>>>>> The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, *without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions*.
+>>>>
+>>>> Also, in theorie at least, Markdown might also support other output formats than HTML.
+>>>> Those wouldn't know about how to deal with the intermingled HTML code.
+>>>>
+>>>> --[[tschwinge]]
+
 > The lack of the `#foo` anchor in the anchor example on [[wikilink]]
 > definitely looks like a bug.  --[[JoshTriplett]]
 
@@ -27,3 +48,4 @@ Considering a hierarchy like `foo/bar/bar`, I had the need to link from the
 `foo/bar/bar` page to the `foo/bar` one.  It would have been convenient to
 simply write [[wikilink]]s like `\[[../bar]]` (or even just `\[[..]]`?), but
 this doesn't work, so I had to resort to using `\[[foo/bar]]` instead.
+--[[tschwinge]]