[pmwiki-users] Images in another group

DaveG pmwiki at solidgone.com
Thu Dec 1 20:40:32 CST 2005


That certainly makes more sense to me.

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:19:12AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
>>>   On 12/1/05, DaveG <pmwiki at solidgone.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     That format doesn't appear to make much sense though. When refering to
>>>     an image in the same group, no page is required, so why is one required
>>>     outside the group?  I presume we needed some mechanism to distinguish
>>>     between a group and a page -- could we not use something more obvious?
>>>     Possibly Attach:Group/image.ext and Attach:Group/file/image.ext?
>>
>>Suppose I have a site organized with per-page attachments instead of
>>per-group attachments.  How should an author refer to an attachment
>>to page "XYZ" in the same group?  Well, if I were writing a link, I
>>would use [[XYZ]], so it makes sense that the attachment should be
>>Attach:XYZ/image.ext.  It *doesn't* make sense that I would have to
>>write the group name (i.e., Attach:Group/XYZ/image.ext) to access
>>an attachment of another page in the same group.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, I suppose that we could redefine the Attach:
> markup so that Attach:XYZ/image.ext refers to page XYZ in the
> current group if such a page exists, otherwise it refers to the 
> group XYZ.  This would mean we can no longer describe Attach:
> in terms of existing markup semantics as we do now, but it might 
> be more in line with what authors seem to naturally expect.
> 
> Pm
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