[markdown] Markdown open a new window link

Using sed

If one would like to do this systematically for all external links, CSS is no option. However, one could run the following sed command once the (X)HTML has been created from Markdown:

sed -i 's|href="http|target="_blank" href="http|g' index.html

This can be further automated in a single workflow when a Makefile with build instructions is employed.

PS: This answer was written at a time when extension link_attributes was not yet available in Pandoc.