[Pmwiki-users] Categories instead of hierarchies?

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

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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