[Pmwiki-users] Reflection on link syntax

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Wed Jun 30 18:41:14 CDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:54:56AM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
> 
> Um, why not:
> 
>    [[target | link text]]
>    [[link text target]]

...because [[link text target]] is a free link to LinkTextTarget.

> >P.S.:  What about [[link text --link title-> target]], where "link title"
> >provides the title attribute for the link?  :-)  The extra hyphens
> >would be optional syntactic sugar.
> 
> Or [[link text --link title target]]

...but this assumes that the target doesn't have any spaces in it.  In
PmWiki2 it's possible for targets to have spaces in them.  (In the case
of an http: or Attach: link as the target, the spaces are automatically
converted into %20 sequences.)

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