[Pmwiki-users] Category implementation

[Knut Alboldt]

At 21:06 28.10.2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:13:10PM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> > On Thursday, 28 October 2004 3:53 PM, Patrick R. Michaud 
> <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I had rather thought that the link text would be '!XYZ', so ...
> > [...]
> > I *do* think the default behaviour should distinguish category
> > links and the ! seems a gentle, non-intrusive way to do so.
>
>I agree that it makes sense to distinguish category links, I'm not
>sure that the ! is a gentle, non-intrusive way of doing it (especially
>for new/non-authors).  When I tried it myself I wasn't that impressed
>with seeing
>
>     Category: !2004, !Horror, !Film
>
>in my page output.  I felt that
>
>     Category: 2004, Horror, Film
>
>reads much better.  By analogy, author links display as "Pm" and not "~Pm".
>Plus, the programmer in me kept seeing the bare !'s as meaning the page
>did *not* belong to 2004, Horror, or Film. :-)
>
>So, I agree fully that it's good to visually distinguish the category
>links (which is why I sent my message), but using '!' doesn't feel like
>the right answer.
>
>Pm

so why not implementing it like I've read before:

(:category c1, c2, c3:)  without displaying it
[[category c1, c2 ,c3]] with displaying it as links like "category: c1, c2, c3"

(:categorylist:) or [[categorylist]]
to display all (w/o  or with links)

(i think, in the markup and link the word "category" should be changeable 
by a common var for translation reasons)
?

Knut