[pmwiki-devel] Wiki links with title/alt text attribute

[Petko Yotov]

On Wednesday 04 May 2011 22:56:51, John Rankin wrote :
> For completeness, the local customisation to let LinkPage take advantage
> of the $alt text that
> MakeLink sets was equally easy. Perhaps this feature could move into the
> core at some point.
> The changes to pmwiki.php are:
> 
> - add '$LinkAlt' and $alt to the str_replace arrays at the penultimate
> line of function LinkPage
> 
> - change $LinkPageExistsFmt and $LinkPageCreateFmt
> 
> At the moment, I am using a custom LinkPage function. So far, this has
> not had any side-effects
> that I can detect.
> 
> Technically, the change is simple. The question is whether the markup is
> suitable.
> 
> [[page name"alt text" | link text]] and [[link text -> page name"alt
> text"]] look and feel acceptable to me.

In the past, there have been discussions about link titles and the preferred 
format was [[link | text | title ]]. It is written on the roadmap.

Alternatively, there is a LinkTitles recipe that uses [[link | text (title)]] 
and hides the thing in parentheses much like the regular [[page (link)]] does.

The external link titles feature [[http://link"title"|text]] always existed 
but was initially hidden because the $UrlLinkFmt didn't have the attribute 
title='\$LinkAlt'. It was for a long time documented how to enable it, and it 
is now enabled.

The image alt/title text always existed like http://site/image.jpg"alt" or 
Attach:im.jpg"alt".

That's why I said Monday, I don't know yet if and how the [[internal link 
"with  quotes"]] should or shouldn't be changed in the core.

Petko