> How do you turn off the feature where words with two capitals in them > are auto-linked unless you put in a ~. I.e., WW2 automatically turns > into a link. > Also, what is the logic behind that feature anyway?
When Ward Cunningham developed the first wiki software, one important goal was to simplify or even eliminate the need for special syntax for hyperlinks. This is because the "wiki way" is to allow 'on the fly' creation of pages (or in TiddlyWiki's case, tiddlers), and stopping to specify a complex linking syntax interrupts the creative flow. Nonetheless, in order for any wiki system to render a link embedded within content, there has to be *some* kind of distinct syntax that can be used to recognize that a link is intended, rather than just displaying normal text To address this, Ward settled on using a mixed-case pattern where two adjoining capitalized words would automatically be rendered as a link to another page. This mixed-case pattern is sometimes called "Camel case" due to the 'hump' formed by the capital letter(s) in the middle of the text, and has become generally known as a "WikiWord" because of it's nearly universal use within many different wiki systems. The rationale for WikiWord syntax is that, while it is still a special syntax, it is only barely so (just a change in letter case and removing some whitespace between words), so it's impact on the creative process is minimally intrusive. Of course, if you *don't* want to use WikiWord links and prefer to use the [[...]] syntax to explicitly define each link, then automatic WikiWord linking can be *very* intrusive :-) This can be particularly true when using lots of acronyms, names or technical terms that might match the WikiWord pattern requirements (such as "WW2", "McDonald", etc.) Fortunately, there is a TiddlyTools plugin that gives you more control over automatic WikiWord linking: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#DisableWikiLinksPlugin After importing this tiddler, save-and-reload (so the plugin takes effect). Then, open the DisableWikiLinksPlugin tiddler and select the "Disable ALL automatic WikiWord tiddler links" checkbox in the "Configuration" section of the documentation. That's it. From then on, when a tiddler is rendered, no automatic links will appear... just links that have been specified using [[...]]. enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
