[pmwiki-users] Allowable characters

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:02:38PM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>
>>>> Not a dumb question at all.  Not all Wikis are the same in this
>>>> respect; MediaWiki *does* allow '(' ')' in page names -- it's just that
>>>> PmWiki doesn't.
>>>
>>> In retrospect I somewhat wish that I had chosen '{' and '}' to mean
>>> "suppress text in the link" instead of parens.
>>
>> Is it to late to change if it's done slowly, i.e. to begin with allow '{'
>> and '}' to also suppress text?
>
> John Rankin and I had discussed the possibility that '{' and '}' could 
> be used to add text.  :-)

How about the following links, where the link text is shown to the right:

 	[[Some other page]]		->	Some other page

 	[[a page -> Some other page]]	->	Some other page

 	[[Some {other} page]]		->	Some page

 	[[Some {-other} page]]		->	Some page

 	[[Some other page{+s}]]		->	Some other pages

 	[[Some {-other} page{+s}]]	->	Some other pages

It is getting a tad complicated, I also think you want to hide text more 
often than you want to add. What do you think?

/Christian

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