A Link reference defintion is dropped

[jendrikw]

A Link reference defintion is dropped

[tstehr]

Hi 👋

Thank you for reporting this issue! I've tested locally and can confirm that this is a bug in the recipemd implementation.

Looks like it might be easy to fix. I'll give it a try on the weekend.

[tstehr]

Just a quick head up that I haven't forgotten about this issue.

It turns out to be a somewhat bigger problem that is probably impossible to fix with our underlying CommonMark parser commonmark.py, since we don't get enough access to the source positions from the parse result (see also #37).

Additionally, commonmark.py has been deprecated in the meantime so this seemingly innocuous issue as spun out into researching alternative CommonMark implementations and migrating recipemd, which is still ongoing.

[tstehr]

I've just released recipemd 4.1.0, which is now based on markdown-it-py instead of commonmark.py.

With the new underlying CommonMark parser I'm able to very flexibly configure parsing, allowing recipemd to essentially treat reference links and images as regular paragraphs.

This ensures that they now appear as authored in the parsed recipe 🎉