[pmwiki-users] Page Names

[Petko Yotov]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 23:47:10 Hans wrote:
> Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 7:28:49 PM, Russell D Jones wrote:
> > problem is that PmWiki doesn't seem to support the linking to a page
> > titled "George W. Bush" but instead sends the user to the "Bush" page in
> > the "George W" group.
>
> You could try this markup definition as a replacement to the free
> link markup [[free links]] (watch out for inadvertent line breaks due to
> email software):
>
> ## [[free links]] without group
> Markup('[[','links',"/(?>\\[\\[\\s*(.*?)\\]\\])($SuffixPattern)/e",
>   "Keep(MakeLink(\$pagename,str_replace('. ',' ',PSS('$1')),PSS('$1'),'$2'),'L')");

The solution suggested by Hans is simple, but seems to have some possibly 
undesirable effects.[1]

1. There are some changes (I cannot find why) to the display of [[Group/]] and 
[[Group/Page]] links, which should display "Group" and "Page", but they do 
not seem to. At my test wiki, they display "Group/" and "Group/Page".

2. For markup [[(Mr. )Nobody]], should display "Nobody", it prints 
out "(Mr. )Nobody" ; again, I cannot find why.

3. Arrow links [[Text -> Mr. Nobody]] do not work, they link to [[Mr/Nobody]] 
in an external group, what we are trying to avoid.

4. Links with alternative text, [[Mr. Nobody | Alternative text ]] do not 
work, but lead to a page Nobody in an external group Mr/.

5. Wikitrails and in pagelists/search results built on wikitrails, will 
silently ignore links in the new format (dot-space=space).

Here is an experimental solution, suggested by Pm, that needs to be tested but 
it seems to work:
  http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DotsInLinks

While there is no guarantee, the recipe seems to fix the above issues [2]. 
Testing and comments are welcome...

Thanks,
Petko
[1] http://galleries.accent.bg/Main/WikiSandbox-LinkDots
[2] http://galleries.accent.bg/Main/WikiSandbox-LinkDots2