[Pmwiki-users] Re: [[include: ... ]] part of a page

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:31:43PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> I'm open for discussion/reactions from the group on the suggestions given
> by J. Meijer (below).  Many seem plausible to me.  If we followed it, 
> the result might be something like:
> 
>    [[include:SomePage#soup]]       -- everything after #soup (cf. HTML)
>    [[include:SomePage#soup#nuts]]  -- from #soup to #nuts
>    [[include:SomePage#1#soup]]     -- everything before #soup
>    [[include:SomePage#soup#]]      -- from #soup to the next anchor
>    [[include:SomePage#1#]]         -- everything up to the first anchor
>    [[include:SomePage#10]]         -- line 10 through end of SomePage
>    [[include:SomePage#10#]]        -- line 10 through the next anchor
> 
>    [[include:SomePage#1#10]]       -- first ten lines 
>    [[include:SomePage#5#10]]       -- lines 5 through 14
>    [[include:SomePage#soup#1]]     -- one line starting with #soup
>    [[include:SomePage#soup#5]]     -- five lines starting with #soup

I like it! Though there is a bit of broken symmetry between the solely
numeric and solely non-numeric anchors. (i.e. #start#end for non-numeric
versus #start#length for the numeric) But making it symmetrical sounds
like a foolish consistency to me. :-)

I'm still mildly bothered by end point inclusion for
[[include:SomePage#soup#nuts]] (don't know why it's just stuck on my
brain) As a feature suggestion, perhaps [[include:SomePage#soup##nuts]]
could include the #nuts line (or vice versa if #soup#nuts already
includes the #nuts line)

Anyway, I vote in favor of this new interpretation of the include
markup.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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