[pmwiki-users] 2.1.beta15: pagelist formats

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:51:51AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:41:51PM +0000, Hans wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks! What exactly does (:if equal {<$Group}:) do?
> > I see now that it substitutes for $FPL...StartFmt, and
> > (:if equal {>$Group}:) for  $FPL...EndFmt,
> > but how is this achieved?
> 
> Think of it as
>     (:if equal {<$Group} "" :)
> and
>     (:if equal {>$Group} "" :)
> The first says "if the previous page's group is empty" 
> (i.e., start of the list), the second says "if the next 
> page's group is empty" (i.e., end of the list).

More generally, we have:

    (:if equal {<$Group}:)               At beginning of list
    (:if equal {>$Group}:)               At end of list
    (:if ! equal {<$Group} {=$Group}:)   First item in group
    (:if ! equal {>$Group} (=$Group}:)   Last item in group

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