[Pmwiki-users] Re: Categories instead of hierarchies?

[Knut Alboldt]

John Rankin <john.rankin <at> affinity.co.nz> writes:

> 
> 3. no changes to PmWiki are needed -- just put
> 
>     [[Category/XYZ]]
> 
>   on the page
> 
> 4. do we want a special markup for categories?
> 

I would prefer it, although it would be good if 3. would be possible additional
to 4.

> 5. if so the choices are:
> 
>  a) a directive keyword, such as (:category XYZ:)
> 
>  b) a shortcut character (cf [[~Pm]]), such as [[!XYZ]]
> 
>  c) an inline markup (cf <<|TrailPage|>>), such as 
>    <<!XYZ!>>
> 
> 6. if we have a special markup, it should allow an
>    administrator to specify a common style for all 
>    category links, such as <span class='wikicategory'>

would be good.

Additional thoughts:

In my opinion, it would be good to keep this markup as links, so categories
would be listed in the target=-section of a page. This would make it possible,
to add the link=-parameter, Patrick suggested (or if needed an own
search-markup), so the search for categories would be done only within the
target=-section and within the textpage itself just to get not any other text
incidently.

Knut