From 9aa5b58359d04308100fa5688987316dd6a66375 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hisham Mahgoub <hesham.workk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 15:35:25 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix link and image rules failing to match due to invalid
 POSIX regex escapes

---
 MarkdownTranslator.alusus | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MarkdownTranslator.alusus b/MarkdownTranslator.alusus
index b0cc709..ded5ad9 100644
--- a/MarkdownTranslator.alusus
+++ b/MarkdownTranslator.alusus
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class MarkdownTranslator [RegexType: type] {
                 }
             }),
             // link
-            Rule("\\[([^\n\\x5D]*)\\]\\(([^()\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
+            Rule("\\[([^]\n]*)\\]\\(([^()\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
                 if args(1) == "" args(1) = args(2);
                 if this.elementStack.getLength() == 0 this.jumpToLevel(String("p"), 1, false);
                 def target: CharsPtr = "";
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ class MarkdownTranslator [RegexType: type] {
                 }
             }),
             // image
-            Rule("!\\[([^\n\\x5D]*)\\]\\(([^()\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
+            Rule("!\\[([^]\n]*)\\]\\(([^()\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
                 if this.onHtmlTag.isNull() {
                     this.output += String.format("<img src=\"%s\" title=\"%s\">", args(2).buf, args(1).buf);
                 } else {
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ class MarkdownTranslator [RegexType: type] {
                 }
             }),
             // all chars
-            Rule("[^\n*\\\\`!\\x5B]+", closure(args: Array[String]) {
+            Rule("[^\n*\\\\`![]+", closure(args: Array[String]) {
                 if this.elementStack.getLength() == 0 this.jumpToLevel(String("p"), 1, false);
                 this.output += args(0);
             }),

From 06744cc29528b999b82cfdc60fd16b4e0178ee6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hisham Mahgoub <hesham.workk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 19:29:11 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed link rule to support URLs with parentheses and
 double-bracket text.

---
 MarkdownTranslator.alusus | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MarkdownTranslator.alusus b/MarkdownTranslator.alusus
index ded5ad9..2813b6c 100644
--- a/MarkdownTranslator.alusus
+++ b/MarkdownTranslator.alusus
@@ -254,8 +254,22 @@ class MarkdownTranslator [RegexType: type] {
                     else this.output += str;
                 }
             }),
+            // link with double brackets [[text]](url)
+            Rule("\\[\\[([^]\n]*)\\]\\]\\(([^ \t\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
+                def linkText: String = String("[") + args(1) + String("]");
+                if this.elementStack.getLength() == 0 this.jumpToLevel(String("p"), 1, false);
+                def target: CharsPtr = "";
+                if this.linksInNewTab target = "target=\"_blank\""
+                if this.onHtmlTag.isNull() {
+                    this.output += String.format("<a href=\"%s\" %s>%s</a>", args(2).buf, target, linkText.buf);
+                } else {
+                    def str: String = this.onHtmlTag("a", args(2), linkText);
+                    if str != "" this.output += str
+                    else this.output += String.format("<a href=\"%s\" %s>%s</a>", args(2).buf, target, linkText.buf);
+                }
+            }),
             // link
-            Rule("\\[([^]\n]*)\\]\\(([^()\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
+            Rule("\\[([^]\n]*)\\]\\(([^ \t\n]+)\\)", closure(args: Array[String]) {
                 if args(1) == "" args(1) = args(2);
                 if this.elementStack.getLength() == 0 this.jumpToLevel(String("p"), 1, false);
                 def target: CharsPtr = "";