On Thursday, 30 April 2009 1:45 PM, Petko Yotov <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thursday 30 April 2009 02:29:24 John Rankin wrote: >> >> I'm not going to say "yeah" or "nay", just point out that >> >> [[!X]] already becomes the category link... the question (I think) >> >> was with regards to alternative naming of the link.. so >> >> we want to say [[!X|What X is]], which doesn't work. >[...] >> IMO, [[!X|What X is]] should link to the Category.X page >> and display "What X is". >[...] >> IMO this is a bug in pmwiki's category markup rule. > >[...] > >In case I now need to distribute pages linking to categories with alternative >link text, I'll probably use : > [[Category.Topic|link text]] or > [[{$CategoryGroup}.Topic|link text]] > >The latter needing a PV declaration in recipe.php : > $FmtPV['$CategoryGroup'] = '$GLOBALS["CategoryGroup"]'; # >untested > It happens that in my situation, this is not suitable. I am using category markup to build a book index, so need to re-interpret the category markup rules to produce XML that can be processed into an index. So I added a local rule for [[!Topic|link text]] and at the moment don't need the other link options.
I'll copy this thread to a new PITS entry. Thanks JR -- John Rankin _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
