[Pmwiki-users] Re: more --signature markup thoughts
Christian Ridderström
chr
Tue Feb 10 05:23:13 CST 2004
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:06:53AM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > {{--username}}
> My vote is for this (or perhaps: [[--username]]. It Shows it is a link
> using the normal link notation, and it shows it is a signature, using --
> like is common.
>
Balu wrote:
Please keep in mind that this should not only be used for
signatures, but everywhere a user name could be listed. E.g.:
as a signature -- [[~username]]
'''[[~username]]:''' chat-style message
[[~username]] said foobar
Balu
PS: Wasn't --some text-- used for strikethrough somewhere?
and I think that's a good reason why [[~username]] (or {{~username}} is
better.
In addition, we have the UNIX convention in paths that:
~username
refers to the home directory of the user 'username'. And very often you'll
find that your personal webpage are located at
http://<partial-uri>/~username
Actually, the URI to my homepages is an example of this:
http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Finally, I think these examples also illustrate why it makes more sense to
use {{~username}} instead of {~username~} or other "symmetric" alternatives.
/Christian
PS. I just came up with a reason why {{~chr}} is better than [[~chr]]. If
I want to make a link to my profile page, but have a different link text,
I can do it like this (using the two alternatives):
a) [[{{~christian ridderstr?m}} Christian's profile]]
b) [[[[~christian ridderstr?m]] Christian's profile]]
where we can note that (a) is consistent with previous markup and (b) is
not.
--
Christian Ridderstr?m http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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