[pmwiki-users] Allowable characters

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:42:01PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> 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.

In retrospect I somewhat wish that I had chosen '{' and '}' to
mean "suppress text in the link" instead of parens.

On the other hand, it was MediaWiki that first gave me the idea
to use the parens to suppress the text, since they were doing that
for one of their markups.

> > 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.

Agreed.