I'd like to propose that we begin migrating to using curly braces instead of parens to suppress parts of links.
Background: Currently PmWiki uses parentheses in [[links]] to allow certain parts of the link test to be suppressed. For example, instead of writing a link as [[http://www.pmichaud.com | pmichaud.com]] an author can write [[(http://www.)pmichaud.com]] and the part inside the parentheses is suppressed. Proposal: I'd like to start switching pmwiki to use curly braces (or perhaps some other bracketing character) instead of parens for this, such that the above link would be written as: [[{http://www.}pmichaud.com]] The primary reason for making this switch is that unlike curly braces and brackets, bare parentheses are legal in urls. As a result, people who want to write a url containing parentheses (common on Wikipedia) have to write %28 and %29 for parens so that PmWiki doesn't treat them as link text suppression markers. In this proposal we would not immediately eliminate the use of parens to suppress link text -- it would be left as an option for now and removed in some future major release of PmWiki. Any comments on this proposal? Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
