[Pmwiki-users] Reflection on link syntax
John Rankin
john.rankin
Wed Jun 30 17:55:29 CDT 2004
On Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:52 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:00:41PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>Actually, the more I think about this, the more I think I like having
>both syntaxes available, as in
>
> [[target | link text]]
> [[text -> target]]
>
>The first is natural when one is thinking "link to target but use this
>other text", while the second is natural when is thinking "show this
>text, and link it to target".
Um, why not:
[[target | link text]]
[[link text target]]
>
>
>P.S.: What about [[link text --link title-> target]], where "link title"
>provides the title attribute for the link? :-) The extra hyphens
>would be optional syntactic sugar.
Or [[link text --link title target]]
Just a thought...
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JR
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John Rankin
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