[pmwiki-users] title directive and links

[Dan Weber]

I am a little confused, but that's easy to achive since I am very new
to PmWiki.

Some of the format variables seem to use Wiki markup and some seem to
use HTML markup. How do I know when I have to use HTML and when I have
to use Wiki markup? While the HTML approach allows more flexibility the
Wiki approach is nice because I can use Cookbook entries like the
PageTitle one.

Thanks

--- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:47:09AM -0700, Dan Weber wrote:
> > > Currently, search results always show less descriptive page
> names, so
> > > sometimes it is not clear what is the page about. Page titles
> would
> > > be ideal.
> > 
> > I was able to change the RecentChanges page format by changing the
> > following two variables:
> > 
> > $RecentChangesFmt['$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges'] = '*
> > [[$Group.$Name|+]] . . . $CurrentTime $[by] $AuthorLink:
> > [=$ChangeSummary=]';
> 
> Excellent...! I hadn't considered this possibility!  This simple
> mechanism for having titles in RecentChanges pages adds a *lot*
> of weight to the idea of putting [[Page|+]] markup directly in
> the core.
> 
> > I could not find a similar approach for the search page though. It
> > seems to be related to the page index script but those format
> variables
> > have html in it and not wiki markup so I am not sure how to
> activate
> > the same Title script. Maybe I am just not seeing the relevant Fmt
> > variable?
> 
> The relevant Fmt variable is $Title.  One mechanism for displaying
> titles instead of pagenames in (:pagelist:) output is described
> at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PagelistExplained , in the
> "Comments/Questions" section.  (Yes, I'm planning to move this
> particular item into its own recipe.)
> 
> Pm
> 
>