spec/flavour.md

@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ survives inline parsing. Each section below says whether content is required. `:
 directive only when the name is followed immediately by `[` or `{`, and `{attrs}` must follow
 `]` (or the name) with no gap — anything else (`10:30`, `:smile:`, a stray `{…}` in text) is
 literal text. An inline directive binds as a unit before bracket matching, the way a code span
-does: a `]` or `(` inside its `{attrs}` is the directive's, never the enclosing content's.
+does: a `]` or `(` inside its `{attrs}` is the directive's, never the enclosing content's, and a
+`(` after its closing `]` opens no link.
 
 **Container block**:
 
@@ -100,9 +101,9 @@ form, and omits empty `{attrs}` except where the `{` itself claims the directive
 (`:hardBreak{}`).
 
 **Escaping**: the emitter backslash-escapes whatever literal text would otherwise parse as
-directive syntax — the leading `:` of a would-be directive, `]` inside content, a `{` right after
-a directive's closing `]`, which would otherwise be read as the attributes it has none of; outside code
-spans and code blocks, a backslash before `:` in input yields a literal colon.
+directive syntax — the leading `:` of a would-be directive, `]` inside content, a `{` right
+after a directive's closing `]`, which would otherwise be read as the attributes it has none
+of; outside code spans and code blocks, a backslash before `:` in input yields a literal colon.
 
 **Malformed directives are error results**, named: an unclosed container at end of input, a body
 fence line of the container's length or longer, a bare colon-run line outside any container or
@@ -216,11 +217,10 @@ One header row plus plain inline cells is a pipe table; anything richer is the d
 (AGENTS.md §4). Precisely: a table emits as a pipe table exactly when the `table`, every row
 and every cell carry no attrs and no marks, the first row is all `tableHeader` and the rest all
 `tableCell`, every row has the header's cell count, and every cell holds exactly one attr-less,
-mark-less paragraph — an empty cell holds one empty paragraph — with no `|` anywhere the inline
-layer spells as syntax — a code span, a link destination or title, an inline directive's
+mark-less paragraph — an empty cell holds one empty paragraph — with no `|` anywhere the
+inline layer spells as syntax — a code span, a link destination or title, an inline directive's
 attributes: backslash escapes are inert there, so pipe form cannot spell that pipe and the table
-takes the directive form. A pipe table
-parses back to exactly that shape.
+takes the directive form. A pipe table parses back to exactly that shape.
 
 ```
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