Fundamentally, the Web requires links to be presented via anchor tags. Anchor tags are allowed by the default input format. If you want it to be pretty, add a class to your anchor tags and make the necessary adjustment to your style sheet. It takes only seconds to type out a typical anchor tag, and requires no hoop-jumping or additional modules.
cl@isbd.net wrote:
The trouble is not so much that it's particularly difficult to embed links but that what seems (to me at least) to be such a fundamental part of what the web is about has to be done with an add-on of some sort or another.
... and when you've done it you can't really see what the result looks like.