[pmwiki-users] Allowable characters
Kathryn Andersen
kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Mon May 14 05:42:01 CDT 2007
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:47:56AM +0000, Dave Cooke wrote:
> Thanks Kathryn, I think I'd get on a lot better and ask less dumb questions if
> I read some of the basic philosophy of Wikis. I didn't appreciate the problem
> with using round brackets but now I do I see its a good idea not to be
> compromised.
Not a dumb question at all. Not all Wikis are the same in this respect;
MediaWiki *does* allow '(' ')' in page names -- it's just that PmWiki
doesn't.
> FYI what I've done for the one page where I required it - the generally
> accepted way of writing someones name, I used the (:title:) statement on the
> page and that did just what I wanted!
Glad you found a solution.
Kathryn Andersen
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