[Pmwiki-users] PmWiki stuff
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at sci.tamucc.edu
Thu Feb 27 18:25:00 CST 2003
PmWiki 0.4 is nearing completion, the current release is pmwiki-0.4.beta4.
This release appears to be fairly stable, as I'm currently using it for the
pmichaud.com site without too many difficulties. I suspect that
the new version will be released "any day now".
My sincere thanks go out to John Rankin, Scott Duff, and Dawn Green for
their suggestions and assistance in creating PmWiki 0.4. I thought PmWiki
0.3 was really good--I'm amazed at what we can do in 0.4. Here are some
of the recent items:
* FreeLinks - If you haven't tried FreeLinks yet (courtesy of John
Rankin), you should. FreeLinks provides another mechanism for
creating links to other pages. As an example, within a document
I can write {{free links}} to create a link to the page named
"FreeLinks" but the text will display "free links". Formerly one
would've had to write [[FreeLinks free links]] to make this happen.
One can also put a vertical brace to suppress part of the ending, so
that {{free link|s}} still links to the page "FreeLinks" but displays
as the text "free link". And finally, characters following the
closing curly braces become part of the link anchor, so that {{WikiWord}}s
will be a link to a page named "WikiWord" but will display the anchor as
"WikiWords", thus solving the oft-cited WikiPluralProblem. And these
can all be combined, thus allowing alternate endings for all of your
{{free link|s}}ages.
* QuickReference on edit pages- Some time ago, and again this past week,
Scott Duff suggested adding a "quick reference" guide to the bottom of
the editing page. Yesterday John Rankin made the (obvious in
retrospect, wish I had thought of it) suggestion of displaying a
quick reference wiki page at the bottom of the edit form. This
has been implemented in pmwiki-0.4.beta4, which you can see at
www.pmichaud.com. Feel free to modify the QuickReference page that
is there if you can think of any improvements (I blatantly plagiarized my
QuickReference from the one in phpwiki).
* And, speaking of documentation, Dawn Green has put together an
excellent outline/starting point for developing some docs at
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/PmWikiDocumentation. Please
feel free to jump in and contribute to the effort. Documentation
is going to be my next focus of development, probably even before
implementing page attachments. I will have more about documentation
in a subsequent email.
* I've added a "[[#name]]" markup in documents which allows one to specify
targets within a WikiPage, thus enabling a url like
http://.../wiki/Main/WikiSandbox#mytarget to jump directly to the location
marked by [[#mytarget]] in the WikiSandbox page. If someone wants to
propose a different/better markup for this I'm open for suggestions.
Again, thanks to everyone for their contributions and help with PmWiki!
Pm
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