[pmwiki-users] Ampersand and page titles

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Wed Jan 17 05:34:58 CST 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:27:46AM -0800, Nicholas Buttle wrote:
> When naming a page users are often using the '&' sign.
> 
> This results in a page title like xxxxxAmpxxxx when
> the page is saved.  The trouble is that when the title
> is written out at the top of the page automatically
> we're getting results like...
> 
> Printing Amp Saving
> 
> instead of 
> 
> Printing & Saving.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas how to deal with this?  Does it
> have to be an email to all users imposing another
> restriction...?  Hope not.

Either that, or you'll simply have to educate them how to use the
(:title:) directive, so that they can alter the title of such pages
to be

(:title Printing & Saving:)

That does work to change the title.

Kathryn Andersen
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