On 29 Mar 2006 12:23:29 +1200, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Rankin</b> <<a href="mailto:john.rankin@affinity.co.nz">john.rankin@affinity.co.nz</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday, 27 March 2006 1:54 PM, John Rankin <<a href="mailto:john.rankin@affinity.co.nz">john.rankin@affinity.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>>On Sunday, 26 March 2006 8:52 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <<a href="mailto:pmichaud@pobox.com">
pmichaud@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:05:33AM -0600, Tegan Dowling wrote:<br>>>> If you go to <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkupExtensions">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkupExtensions
</a>, you'll<br>>>> see its title appears to be "Abbreviation Plurals". I could find no<br>>>> (:title:) setting for the page, but I did find that a reference to the<br>>>> actual page Cookbook/AbbreviationPlurals is the first item in the
<br>>>> (:pagelist:) example that Christian Ridderstrom put at the very foot of<br>>>> the page.<br>>><br>>>This is a known (mis)feature; the (:title:) directive from<br>>>included pages can inadvertently override or become a title for
<br>>>the page that includes it. Some people have indicated that they<br>>>want to be able to specify (:title:) in includes, and even if this<br>>>weren't the case I'm not sure that I know of a reliable workaround
<br>>>for the behavior, short of hardcoding something directly into<br>>>pmwiki.php.<br>>><br>>>Pm<br>>><br>>One obvious approach would be to separate page data from page<br>>metadata, with a separate edit form for a page's metadata. The
<br>>descriptive metadata are the current (:title:), (:keywords:)<br>>and (:description:) directives.<br><br>On further thought, the following directives could all move to<br>a "Page Properties" action:<br>
<br>noheader, nofooter, noleft, noright, nogroupheader,<br>nogroupfooter, noaction and perhaps comment.<br><br>So that's 11 directives that one would no longer have to<br>remember and would no longer clutter the page and its History.
<br>Instead there would be a form with fields (title, keywords,<br>description, comment?) and checkboxes (everything else).<br></blockquote></div><br>
Plus the ability to add other directives (nosomeotherthing) to the list via config.php additions.<br>