[dpark]

I don’t really understand how reStructuredText’s approach fixes this. The fundamental thing is that you need to remember the order and the syntax. reStructuredText matches the order of Markdown (and so does not match html) but not the syntax. It also seems like a fine format.

> under whose rules parentheses are not percent-encoded.

I don’t know. I feel like half the time I end up with parens encoded. I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Maybe that behavior isn’t common anymore.

> [urls identified with <link> in plain text] used to be very common.

I don’t recall this being common but it’s possible I’m just not remembering.