[Pmwiki-users] AsSpaced function (was pmwiki-2.0.devel9 released)
John Rankin
john.rankin
Thu Sep 30 16:01:23 CDT 2004
On Friday, 1 October 2004 8:04 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>Comments and questions welcome as always. The items now on my hit list:
> * $Name, $Title, $Titlespaced, etc.
> * automatic spacing of WikiWords (AsSpaced)
I'd like to propose some requirements for the AsSpaced function.
1. Make spacing the default and in particular make $Name in
the template $SpacedName (change Wiki Help and Search Wiki too)
2. One directive ([:joinwikiwords:] perhaps) changes body text and
the pagename display (ie $SpacedName is not spaced if the
[:joinwikiwords:] directive is set)
-- If PmWiki doesn't do 1, then one directive [:spacewikiwords:]
changes both body text and the pagename spacing
3. At a minimum make the AsSpaced function a variable, so sites
can customise name spacing
4. Consider adding the following capabilities:
-- a list of words not to be capitalised if \sword\s is true
including A An Of The To By And So On (I have a list for English)
producing for example: A Place to Stand (A is capitalised but to
isn't)
-- a list of words not to be spaced such as PmWiki, PowerPoint,
FrameMaker, FileMaker (probably very site specific)
-- a special case of this is the 'mostly uppercase words': SoI,
PhD, MSc, CoP, TEOs, CIOs and other abbreviation plurals
I'm wondering if a general rule like: don't space
(^|\s)[:upper:]+[:lower:][:upper:]?(\s|$) is appropriate
-- a list of words that start [:lower:][:upper:] like
iTunes, iMac, eLearning, eGovernment, thereby avoiding
'I Tunes, I Mac' etc
5. Make the word lists language-dependent, so choosing a
language automatically chooses the right word lists
6. Alternatively, provide a mechanism for:
-- disabling wikiwords (which I think already exists)
plus naming pages according to the creator's
directions
-- if I write [[iTunes]] or [[TEOs]] or [[A Place to Stand]]
that becomes the $Name of the page
-- I imagine this being done by changing to space to a
(forgive me) '_' to name the file and translating the
(forgive me) '_' back to a space for display purposes
-- then perhaps a very simple AsSpaced function is all that's
needed (item 3 above)
-- the drawback to this is with wikiwords enabled
[[A Place to Stand]] is not the same as APlaceToStand
iTunes may or may not be the same as ITunes
7. Family names are another matter, eg Ma?c\s[:upper:]
probably wouldn't space; O\s[:upper:] on some sites
might become O'[:upper:]
8. This is slippery slope / avoid gratuitous features
territory, but I *do* think PmWiki 2 can do a better
job than PmWiki 1. I hope at least some of these
suggestions are useful.
Comments and improvements welcome.
--
JR
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John Rankin
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