[Vincent Le Chevalier]

Hello!

Some specific sequences of words (such as balance point, blade geometry for example) automatically generate links while posting messages. I've always found this a bit surprising, as the link is not always on-topic, but in my last topic this feature has actually broken a link of my own. It seems that the automatic link interrupts the link set by the user. For example:

[Vincent Le Chevalier]

Hmm okay so it's not that easy because my link above actually works fine
And the link in this test post does not

I'm puzzled...

[Chad Arnow]

Vincent,
Nathan can give you more details, as he coded it, but the auto-linking won't show up in the preview as it seems to only be generated on the final posted page. Also, generally, the auto-link will only happen the first time a key word is typed in a given post, so when you mentioned balance point above in the parentheses), it took care of the auto-linking and then left your next instance of "balance point" unchanged.

If you ever feel your stuff is not being linked right, you can always say:

something mentioning balance point (http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=8088) and so on.

You can even make it:

[Vincent Le Chevalier]

Chad,

Thanks for your answer, that's really all the details I need... I'll do as you suggest and change my links.

Regards

[Nathan Robinson]

You can also get rid of the auto-link feature by adding additional markup into the phrase such as this:

The center of percussion of a sword helps define its dynamic characteristics.

[Vincent Le Chevalier]

Thanks Nathan, I'm going to keep that in a corner of my head as well...