How to link to a named anchor in Multimarkdown?

Question

I have come across a number of mentions of MultiMarkdown\'s support for internal links / named anchors but I am unable to find a single example of how to actually do it.

Answer 1

In standard Markdown, place an anchor where you want to link to and refer to it on the same page by [link text](#abcd).

(This uses name= and not id=, for reasons explained in this answer.)

Remote references can use [link text](http://...#abcd) of course.

This works like a dream, provided you have control over the source and target texts. The anchor can even appear in a heading, thus:

### A Heading in this SO entry!

produces:

A Heading in this SO entry!

and we can even link to it so:

and we can even [link](#head1234) to it so:

(On SO, the link doesn't work because the anchor is stripped.)