Chris Sewell

> The resulting document just has a literal [^f2] in the text. Note, a problem with this is it is basically an intended part of commonmark; that square brackets `[]`...

Looking at djot, they do indeed always treat `[^...]` as a footnote, even if no definition is given: https://djot.net/playground/?text=%5B%5Ea%5D&sourcepos=false (you'll note in https://github.com/jgm/djot, general shortcut link syntax `[...]` is removed)

Thinking about this now actually, perhaps a route to removing the annoying "lazy" behaviour of shortcut link references like `[...]` for myst, would be to introduce a more "specific" syntax...

I'm afraid the tests are not intended for end users, there is no guarantee they work outside of this repository and its CLI/dev setup

@dependabot rebase

That would be great thanks

I'm afraid the tests are not intended for end users, there is no guarantee they work outside of this repository and its CLI/dev setup

> Packagers are not end users. This package is written and distributed for users, not packagers. If you do not want to package it because of the limitations I would...

> You are forgetting that currently almost none od the end users is using self build and installed software. No they are using wheel installs from pypi, using pip or...

> Basing on what you are claiming that? 🤔 The 1 million downloads per day from pypi https://pypistats.org/packages/mdit-py-plugins But look this is not a debate, I'm just doing you the...