[pmwiki-users] want opinions on a new cookbook recipe format

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:42:53AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> Perhaps instead of "Version:" or "Recipe-version:" we should just use 
> "Date:" or "Updated:"?

Actually, here's another big reason to be careful about "Version:" --
{$Version} is already taken as a page variable,  and there's already
a 'version' attribute in page files.

So, we'd need a different page variable to represent the version 
of a recipe, and {$RecipeVersion} seems like a nice way to go.
Of course, this means we should probably use {$RecipeSummary},
{$RecipeVotes}, etc., which means we could leave the markup lines
as "Summary:", "Version:", etc. and simply have them saved as
"recipesummary", "recipeversion", etc. attributes and available
as {$RecipeSummary}, {$RecipeVersion} variables.

It might be nice to have a generic form for saved page properties,
though, instead of tagging it with a specific name like "Recipe".
Maybe {$PropVersion}, {$PropSummary}.  Or maybe another
character besides just the '$', as in {$.Version} or {%Version}
or something like that.  :-|

Pm