Thanks, Karen, but the Infogami tutorial does contain a few Markdown
formatted links, which are turned into html links.

There seems to be a difference in the templates for both types. But I
couldn't figure out so quickly what each rendering step in the templates
does and why it was used.

Ben
On Mar 16, 2013 5:02 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ben, one difference seems to be that type/doc takes html markup, and
> type/page uses MarkDown. When I look at the Infogami tutorial (type/doc)
> in edit mode it appears as html. When I look at, say, the "Writing bots"
> page (type/page) [1] I see what looks like MarkDown coding.
>
> I admit that I've never mastered MarkDown although, as with other wiki
> markup rules, those who know it seem to love it.
>
> kc
> [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots
>
> On 3/15/13 5:07 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:
> > Hi Anand, all,
> >
> > I was wondering why there are separate types for "pages" and "docs".
> > Both types have a title (a string) and a body (of type /type/text),
> > but it seems that the text in a page is fully transformed from
> > wikitext to HTML and docs are not, so that effectively, in docs only a
> > subset of the wikitext is supported.
> >
> > I was doing a slight modification of the Infogami tutorial to make
> > Firefox render it correctly, but noticed that a wikilink like
> > [[/help]] was not turned into a link. However, the reason that Firefox
> > underlined the whole table of contents when hovering over it was
> > because <a ..></a> was transformed into <a/>. Linebreaks are also
> > converted to <br>s (but possibly not always, must check this out a bit
> > more).
> >
> > And then there is also /type/content (also just title and body), so
> > I'm a bit confused with respect to the specific purposes that each of
> > these types fulfill.
> >
> > Ben
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