[pmwiki-users] Macros for PmWiki?

[Petko Yotov]

> (:include #macro fname=MyVideo:)

Sorry, you cannot write only the #anchor, you need a page name, even if 
the anchor is in the current page:

   (:include Page#macro fname=MyVideo:)

Petko

On 03/05/2020 22:59, Petko Yotov wrote:
> We have something like this, we call it include a section (template)
> with variables, see
> 
>   https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/IncludeOtherPages#includevariable
> 
> For example, you can have a hidden section [[#macro]] in the page like 
> this:
> 
> (:if false:)
> [[#macro]]
> {$$fname}\\
> (:video {$$fname}.mp4 poster={$$fname}.jpg:)
> [[#macroend]]
> (:ifend:)
> 
> Then to insert the macro you include it:
> 
> (:include #macro fname=MyVideo:)
> 
> (:include #macro fname=OtherVideo:)
> 
> (:include #macro fname=ThirdVideo:)
> 
> The markup in the template can be more complex, you can have more 
> variables.
> 
> The template can also be a separate page, especially if it is included
> from more than one page.
> 
>   (:include Page fname=MyVideo date="May 3, 2020" size=8mb:)
> 
> The template section may contain markup expressions, wikistyles or any
> other markup (except anchors*). I'd probably try for the caption:
> 
>   {(asspaced "{$$fname}")}
> 
> which would output "My Video" instead of "MyVideo"
> 
> See also $MaxIncludes in the documentation.
> 
> Petko
> 
> *) You can have anchors in the included section but then the directive
> needs to specify both the first and the last anchors like (:include
> page#anchor#anchorend:)
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/05/2020 22:31, Michael Eager wrote:
>> Does PmWiki have any kind of a macro facility, where a page would
>> define a macro and use it multiple times on the page?
>> 
>> My use case would be to have a page which contains multiple links to
>> videos in a table.  Using the VideoAttach recipe, each link would have
>> the file name of the video, the file name of the picture to display
>> (replacing the video file's extension with .jpg), and the caption,
>> which is again the file name of the video.  That's a lot of tedious
>> repetition.
> 
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