[Pmwiki-users] Reflection on link syntax

[John Rankin]

On Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:40 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>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.)
>
>Pm
>
Ok, I now have a large bruise in the middle of my forehead from hitting
my head repeatedly on my desk. I'm clearly having a slow brain day.

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JR
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John Rankin