[pmwiki-users] pagelist template brainstorming

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:08:01AM +0100, Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Sunday 18 February 2007 06:46, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > So, again my questions are: ?Would markups such as these make it
> > easier or more difficult for people creating pagelist templates? ?
> > And is the (:first:)/(:each:)/(:last:) syntax appropriate, or
> > would a different syntax be more desirable?
> 
> Why not use just "each..eachend"? This way there is no need for first and last 
> markups: what is before the first "each" and after the "eachend" in the 
> template will be included if there are pages. 

I would prefer the first and last markups, myself.
 
> Also, the "each group" thing can be greatly simplified if it is just 
>   (:each group:)

But it isn't only groups that we're interested in.  It's *any* kind of
variable, including page-text variables.
 
Kathryn Andersen
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