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There could be a wiki.def file in that defines what char set delimits
or defines each wiki operation. <br>
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If someone wants to use [ ] for links, fine. If someone wants to
change and use {}, or () or <>, or whatever for links. that
could be a user choice, just make the appropriate changes in the
definition file. There's no need to force everyone to adopt a new
standard and rewrite all their old wikis. Make it adaptable. <br>
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If the general trend is to adopt some other standard, then that could
be come the default wiki.def set. <br>
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One could also develop conversion programs to convert one set to
another, using old and new definitions. <br>
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I suppose it might even be possible to attach these sorts of
definitions in a 'hidden' section at the end of each wiki page. <br>
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Kathryn Andersen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:40:37PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The primary reason for making this switch is that unlike
curly braces and brackets, bare parentheses are legal in
urls. As a result, people who want to write a url
containing parentheses (common on Wikipedia) have to write
%28 and %29 for parens so that PmWiki doesn't treat them
as link text suppression markers.
In this proposal we would not immediately eliminate the
use of parens to suppress link text -- it would be left
as an option for now and removed in some future major
release of PmWiki.
Any comments on this proposal?
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
Kathryn Andersen
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Always, Dr Fred C
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