[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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