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_Tell me more about Amaya_

is preferable to any shorter link.

If, somehow, you have multiple links in a sentence, see if you can manage a word or two of unlinked text in between, or, better yet, stop being pretentious and focus on usefulness.

Not: _You can run web browsers,_ _spreadsheets_ or _drawing software._

You can run:

* _web browsers_

* _spreadsheets_

* _drawing software_



> _Tell me more about Amaya_

> is preferable to any shorter link.

I agree, but my reasoning is not about length but about semantics. The 'Tell me more about' part carries meaningful intention and makes no sense without the link, so it should be part of the link together with 'Amaya'.

If on the other hand the example sentence was, say, 'You may be interested in Amaya: W3C's free editor/browser...' I would agree that the link should be limited to 'Amaya'—the meaning carried by the 'You may be interested in' part is tangential to the hyperlink.




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