GitHub MarkDown: Are Macros and Variables possible?

Question

I\'ve been learning github markdown, I had a question about variables and macros.

is it possible to define a variable or macro to prevent repeated printing of a block of

Answer 1

You can use a feature of Markdown called "Reference-style links".

[link text][id] or just [link text] if link-text is unique and consist only of letters, numbers, spaces and punctuation. They are not case sensitive.

then somewhere in the document you define what id is:

[id]: http://example.com/whatever

See https://github.com/biserkov/markdown-playground/blob/master/README.md and

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biserkov/markdown-playground/master/README.md