[pmwiki-users] Acronyms

Chris Cox ccox at airmail.net
Thu Oct 12 11:36:53 CDT 2006


Jan Hegewald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 11.10.2006 um 22:38 schrieb Stirling Westrup:
> 
>>Jan Hegewald wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>I want to use the acronym feature as described at
>>>http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook-V1/Acronyms
>>>but the page says it is for pmwiki 0.6 and 1.0 only. So how do I get
>>>a feature like this in the current pmwiki?
>>>
>>This feature is now supplied by the MarkupExtensions recipe at
>>
>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkupExtensions
>>
>>Install the recipe and then use the markup of:
>>
>> {abbreviation|explanatory text}
> 
> ok, thanks for pointing me to this recipe. However, what I mean is a  
> way to keep a global list of abbreviations, so I don�t have to type  
> {TIA|thanks in advance} everywhere I just want to write TIA. Is this  
> possible with MarkupExtensions? The Acronyms recipe seems to provide  
> this feature. Or do I have to downgrade to version 1 of pmwiki?

This could be more difficult that it seems.  Context could
be important.  That's what makes it more difficult.

Certainly doable... but a straightforward implementation
may have unforeseen side effects.





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