-- Capture patterns used by ] to prevent formatting from being disrupted while text is being processed.
-- Certain character sequences are substituted beforehand to make pattern matching more straightforward:
-- "\1" = "[["
-- "\2" = "]]"
return {
	"((</?link>))\0", -- Special link formatting added by ]
	"((<+>))", -- HTML tag
	"((\1:+\2))\0", -- File
	"((\1:+\2))\0", -- Image
	"((\1:+\2))\0", -- Category
	"((\1:+\2))\0", -- Category
	"((\1)+(\2))\0", -- Bare internal link
	"((\1)-(|)-(\2))\0", -- Piped internal link
	"((% ]+)]*(%]))\0", -- External link
	"((\127'\"`UNIQ%-%-%l+%-%x+%-+QINU`\"'\127))", -- Strip marker
	"('*(''').-'*('''))", -- Bold
	"('*('').-'*(''))" -- Italics
}