On Saturday 28 November 2009 17:51, Nino Novak wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 17:27, T. J. Frazier wrote: > > Nino Novak wrote: > > > I just noticed that in many places, Pages as well as Templates, > > > absolute path names were used for links to associated pages. This > > > makes moving and translation more difficult than if relative path > > > names were used. > > > > > > It's not a great thing, but maybe the one or the other didn't > > > even know of the possibility to use relative pathnames. > > > > > > Nino > > > > Thanks for the reminder. I've had the Wiki Editing Policy on my > > to-do list, for absolute -> relative links, for a week. Finally did > > it. We want to set a good example. > > Just saw that you transformed external -> internal links in a > document. > > But that's not what I meant. What I meant is like in the file system: > absolute paths start at the root. So e.g. (imaginary) > [[Documentation/UserGuide/GettingStarted/chapter1]] > is an absolute path, while relative paths start with the present > document's path, so to link to the above Page from another chapter, > let's say from > [[Documentation/UserGuide/GettingStarted/chapter2]] > you can simply write [[../chapter1]] > > The only discrepancy is that path names starting with a slash are > interpreted as childs from the present document. So from the page > [[Documentation/UserGuide/GettingStarted]] > the link > [[/chapter1]] and [[/chapter2]] lead to the above subpages (and do > not represent absolute pathnames like in dos or unix filesystem > naming conventions).
The interesting thing is with Templates: if you use relative paths in Templates, they are interpreted starting from the page which includes the template. Nino --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
