[Pmwiki-users] Categories instead of hierarchies?
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff
Mon Oct 25 15:37:50 CDT 2004
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:21:46AM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> Time for a summary. Here's where I think we have reached.
>
> 1. categories are useful and cool
Indeed.
> 4. do we want a special markup for categories?
Yes.
> 5. if so the choices are:
>
> a) a directive keyword, such as (:category XYZ:)
ick.
> b) a shortcut character (cf [[~Pm]]), such as [[!XYZ]]
I like it. Though ! bothers me for some reason I can't quite explain.
Here are some alternatives (in order of preference):
[[&XYZ]]
[[^XYZ]]
[[*XYZ]]
> c) an inline markup (cf <<|TrailPage|>>), such as
> <<!XYZ!>>
I'm ambivalent on this one.
> 6. if we have a special markup, it should allow an
> administrator to specify a common style for all
> category links, such as <span class='wikicategory'>
Yep.
-Scott
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