[Pmwiki-users] markup musings - notation idea

[John Feezell]

Perhaps a depth concept would help in solving this problem.

Let one bar "|" mark the beginning of "link text"
Let two bars "||" mark the beginning of "alt text"

Then the following would apply.

Just a thought.

/JF

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General Case:
[[link | link text || alt text]]

Case 1:
[[WikiWord]]
[[HomePage]]

Case 2:
[[WikiWord | link text]]
[[PHPDiffEngine | Diff engine in pure PHP]]

Case 3:
[[http://... | link text]]
[[http://www.pmichaud.com/toast | Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches]]

Case 4:
[[{{singleword}} | link text]]
[[{{Installation}} | Download and Install]]

Case 5:
[[link | link text || alt text]]
[[W3C | Attach:3wc.jpg || World Wide Web Consortium]]

Case 6:
[[link || alt text]]
[[http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/ptart-1c.gif || Toaster and Pop-Tarts]]

Case 7:
[[acronyms || alt text]]
[[HTML || HyperText Markup Language]]

Case 8:
[[link | #sequence]]
[[http://www.pmichaud.com/toast |#]]
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