Re: [pmwiki-users] A Would it Work? Question

2007-03-25 Thread Dave Brockman
Hans wrote: Saturday, March 24, 2007, 10:44:54 AM, Dave wrote: Suppose I create a Page1 in group Alpha which uses :include: to include information from several pages also named Page1 in other groups. On the server I would then copy Alpha/Page1 to Alpha/Page2 and, with an editor (like sed),

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread marc
Tegan Dowling said... On 3/24/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to understand the difficulty it seems to cause; I haven't encountered anyone who couldn't deal with the syntax once understood - a one sentence, one time thing - no different to '' for emphasis, etc. snip Surely,

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
On 3/25/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With respect, dumbing down features to meet the inability of folk to adapt is not a road that I wish to travel. To be honest, I've never understood the reason for the leading space rule. I would much rather have a special markup or a config value that

Re: [pmwiki-users] Is there a way to list pages _without_ a category?

2007-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Aleks wrote: (:pagelist group=Test name=Ca*, -Category :) This only lists pages not containing the text Category, not pages not belonging to any category... The reason I wrote Category in the line Category: [[!Something]] was just to make clear for the

[pmwiki-users] Upgrading

2007-03-25 Thread [] Jamie
For various reasons I don't have a full working copy of PMWiki on my local machine, so upgrading by extracting the entire zip file to my PMWiki folder on my website is not an option. Instead I have to paste my pages and folders individually. With this is mind if I were to upgrade from 2.1.27

Re: [pmwiki-users] Upgrading

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
On 3/25/07, [] Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For various reasons I don't have a full working copy of PMWiki on my local machine, so upgrading by extracting the entire zip file to my PMWiki folder on my website is not an option. Instead I have to paste my pages and folders individually. With

[pmwiki-users] New QUIZ feature in ZAP

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
Just added a slight addition to ZAP's grade extension, making it possible to both produce a grade value and store quiz answers at the same time. As before you can assign any weight to any question (including negative values to penalize wrong answers), use an array of checkboxes (for multiple

Re: [pmwiki-users] Randomize Pages

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
On 3/25/07, [] Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wondered if there is a recipe for randomising extracts of page content? On my wiki home page I'd like to insert a box taking up a quarter of the page, or half a paragraph, which text wrapping round it, and for the recipe to grab the first three

Re: [pmwiki-users] Randomize Pages

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
[[Try to avoid top posting]] On 3/25/07, [] Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I can see a good use of the Pagelist for article teasers. As I understand it I use the markup: (:pagelist fmt=PagelistTemplateSamples#articleteasers group=Main count=1:) However I'm not sure about the code. Is

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Based on a number of recent events, I'm thinking of switching the PmWiki default in 2.2.0 so that leading whitespace characters no longer produce preformatted text. I think that's a good choice, but the transition will probably be tricky. The

Re: [pmwiki-users] $pagename minus the first 9 characters. is this possible?

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
On 3/25/07, Stealth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All. my pages are show as Group.mmdd-title is there a markup i have missed that will let me display this as just Title, by using a Page list. ___ pmwiki-users mailing list

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:48:26AM +0100, marc wrote: Tegan Dowling said... On 3/24/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to understand the difficulty it seems to cause; I haven't encountered anyone who couldn't deal with the syntax once understood - a one sentence, one time thing -

Re: [pmwiki-users] Confluence flavor

2007-03-25 Thread St�phane Heckel
Stéphane Heckel wrote : Here it is : The 2 columns format http://jamanga.free.fr/confluence/2columns.PNG The tasklist http://jamanga.free.fr/confluence/tasklist.PNG and the last one : Graph http://jamanga.free.fr/confluence/graph.PNG I have updated the

Re: [pmwiki-users] $pagename minus the first 9 characters. is this possible?

2007-03-25 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:52:17PM +0100, Stealth wrote: my pages are show as Group.mmdd-title is there a markup i have missed that will let me display this as just Title, by using a Page list. Two more suggestions: 1) Use the {$BaseName} page variable; this is set up by giving a basename

[pmwiki-users] foxforum don't create new topic

2007-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying Fox cookbook for a forum. I'm using PmWiki 2.2.0 beta 16. I can't create new topic with the field in the homepage of the group. No error message, just returning to the home. I read and do instructions for the home (index) page, for the GroupFooter page, and then for

Re: [pmwiki-users] Sidebar as a Pagetree ?

2007-03-25 Thread St�phane Heckel
Kathryn Andersen wrote : PmWiki only has a two-level hierarchy. This is a design decision, not an oversight. [...] But you would have groups like: Sales Sales-Process Sales-Programs And pages such as Sales-Process.EvaluationSoftware ok, let's keep this two-level hierarchy and let's

Re: [pmwiki-users] Sidebar as a Pagetree ?

2007-03-25 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:02:13AM +0200, St?phane Heckel wrote: ok, let's keep this two-level hierarchy and let's assume we don't want to change it to minimize the impact on pmwiki. what I'm talking about is more about the way the menu is displayed. Let's consider that in my example

Re: [pmwiki-users] $pagename minus the first 9 characters. is this possible?

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
2) If you happen to be using Cluster http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cluster then you can use the $n1, $n2 page variables (since the '-' is used as a separator) Or the Hg recipe, :) Cheers, Dan ___ pmwiki-users mailing list

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread The Editor
On 3/25/07, Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if there could be a compromise: rather than having a *single* leading space trigger preformatting, there could be a certain number of leading spaces required, like four or eight. One or two spaces are likely to be accidental,

Re: [pmwiki-users] foxforum don't create new topic

2007-03-25 Thread Mike Bishop
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:00:17AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying Fox cookbook for a forum. I'm using PmWiki 2.2.0 beta 16. I can't create new topic with the field in the homepage of the group. No error message, just returning to the home. I read and do instructions for

Re: [pmwiki-users] Randomize Pages

2007-03-25 Thread Dr Fred C
The Cookbook recipe randomsection will probably do what you want. Some use it for quotes. I use it for random banners. You just put the various text (or banners) you want to display after an anchor. It uses an (:include {banners$RandomSection}:). You can use it in group footer to get it on

[pmwiki-users] Absolute URLs, why does it generate them?

2007-03-25 Thread Sandy
In the default install, pmwiki puts absolute urls in the HTML file, even for pages within the same wiki? Is there a reason for this? Can it be changed with a flag? Is this the reason httrack and other site-copying programs don't work? Sandy ___

[pmwiki-users] Skipping capitalizing Wiki Particles

2007-03-25 Thread Dr Fred C
It would be nice if Wiki Words could be defined to skip cap Particles like The, To, A, An, etc. Furthermore, if would seem even better if one could have a file that were a list of particles, like those above, to ignore capitalizing. Even better, if one might have an option to define a wiki

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:00:13AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: It's even less obvious that something as small as a single leading space is the problem. When we explain the reason for the long lines to authors, it

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread marc
Patrick R. Michaud said... I'd like to avoid the need for the explanation -- especially because the outcome is extremely disproportionate to the cause. Most authors' first encounter with the leading space rule comes from entering a line of text with a leading space, which then results in the

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread marc
The Editor said... On 3/25/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With respect, dumbing down features to meet the inability of folk to adapt is not a road that I wish to travel. To be honest, I've never understood the reason for the leading space rule. The fact is that a function exists and

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:48:06AM +0100, marc wrote: However, I am concerned that this is the thin end of the wedge for complete removal, and the comments of others has made me more than a little nervous about where PmWiki is heading. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any feature

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread marc
Kathryn Andersen said... On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:48:26AM +0100, marc wrote: Tegan Dowling said... On 3/24/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's even less obvious that something as small as a single leading space

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-25 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:37:52AM +0100, marc wrote: Kathryn Andersen said... On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:48:26AM +0100, marc wrote: Tegan Dowling said... On 3/24/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's even less