20 - the CommonMark link takes the try prefix too, and §11's rule names it

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@@ -933,8 +933,11 @@ The done `todo.md` items in full, as they were written. `todo.md` keeps a one-li
       directive form shares — a walk, `codeBlockText`, `emitInlineLine` — so moving it out is the
       second walk 4b removed, and they take the prefix alone. `tryRule` refuses nothing, so it
       takes the narrower type as well, `string | undefined` through `readableText`, which is what
-      `tryImage` and `tryPipeTable` already return. §11's readable-spelling rule carries the
-      prefix, so the next spelling is named by the rule rather than by the six beside it.
+      `tryImage` and `tryPipeTable` already return. `emitLink` is the same channel outside the
+      six — the CommonMark link tried ahead of the inline directive form — so it takes the prefix
+      with them, and the comment naming its `undefined` arm goes with the rename. §11's
+      readable-spelling rule carries the prefix, so the next spelling is named by the rule rather
+      than by the seven beside it.
 - [x] **28 — `emitLine`'s retry loop cannot spin (`0.2.0`).** `emit/inline-line.ts:67` is a
       `for (;;)` that re-emits the line until every unspellable node has been carried, and its
       termination rests on a comment: each pass carries at least one more node, or flips