diff --git a/src/applications/project/remarkup/ProjectRemarkupRule.php b/src/applications/project/remarkup/ProjectRemarkupRule.php
--- a/src/applications/project/remarkup/ProjectRemarkupRule.php
+++ b/src/applications/project/remarkup/ProjectRemarkupRule.php
@@ -40,12 +40,7 @@
     $never_edge = '.';
 
     return '(?:'.
-        // Short project name with one or two characters not in $never_edge or
-        '[^'.$never_edge.$never.']{1,2}|'.
-        // A single character not in $never or $never_edge,
-        // then any number of characters not in $never then a single character
-        // not in $never or $never_edge
-        '[^'.$never_edge.$never.'][^'.$never.']+[^'.$never_edge.$never.']'.
+        '[^'.$never_edge.$never.'](?:[^'.$never.']*[^'.$never_edge.$never.'])?'.
     ')';
   }
 
diff --git a/src/applications/project/remarkup/__tests__/ProjectRemarkupRuleTestCase.php b/src/applications/project/remarkup/__tests__/ProjectRemarkupRuleTestCase.php
--- a/src/applications/project/remarkup/__tests__/ProjectRemarkupRuleTestCase.php
+++ b/src/applications/project/remarkup/__tests__/ProjectRemarkupRuleTestCase.php
@@ -134,7 +134,19 @@
           ),
         ),
       ),
-
+      // This test case failed in an old version of the regex
+      '#js-draw' => array(
+      	'embed' => array(),
+      	'ref' => array(
+      	   'offset' => 1,
+      	   'id' => 'js-draw'
+      	 ),
+     ),
+     // Don't match leading dots for consistency with trailing ones
+     '#.js' => array(
+        'embed' => array(),
+        'ref' => array()
+    ),
     );
 
     foreach ($cases as $input => $expect) {