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| author | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2007-09-24 17:46:49 +0000 |
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| committer | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2007-09-24 17:46:49 +0000 |
| commit | 072d39f4b6fdbf99eea6c7aad593a27e10661fae (patch) | |
| tree | 902457bf3e0fed17a3644a1fd9d86ac64fdea942 | |
| parent | b86f9b8409bb55162dfc7d4d13ea3ee577cce525 (diff) | |
web commit by http://madduck.myopenid.com/: add comment about why link texts need underscores in place of spaces
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/wikilink.mdwn | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/wikilink.mdwn b/doc/wikilink.mdwn index 301f71a7f..894cfdbfe 100644 --- a/doc/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/doc/wikilink.mdwn @@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ WikiLinks are matched with page names in a case-insensitive manner, so you don't need to worry about getting the case the same, and can capitalise links at the start of a sentence, and so on. -It's also possible to write a WikiLink that uses something other than the -page name as the link text. For example `\[[foo_bar|SandBox]]` links to the -SandBox page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]] +It's also possible to write a WikiLink that uses something other than the page +name as the link text. For example `\[[foo_bar|SandBox]]` links to the SandBox +page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]]. The reason you +have to (well, *should*) use underscores in place of spaces is so that +`ikiwiki` can distinguish your WikiLink from a PreprocessorDirective. To link to an anchor inside a page, you can use something like `\[[WikiLink#foo]]` |