* If the meta plugin overides the page title, set a title_overridden

  variable in the template to true. This allows doing things with the
  templates conditional on the title being overriden.

5 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
index 0890830a7..9b026fffa 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ sub pagetemplate (@) { #{{{
 
 	$template->param(meta => $meta{$page})
 		if exists $meta{$page} && $template->query(name => "meta");
-	$template->param(title => $title{$page})
-		if exists $title{$page} && $template->query(name => "title");
+	if (exists $title{$page} && $template->query(name => "title")) {
+		$template->param(title => $title{$page});
+		$template->param(title_overridden => 1);
+	}
 	$template->param(permalink => $permalink{$page})
 		if exists $permalink{$page} && $template->query(name => "permalink");
 	$template->param(author => $author{$page})
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 745678056..4e92226fa 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+ikiwiki (1.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * If the meta plugin overides the page title, set a title_overridden
+    variable in the template to true. This allows doing things with the
+    templates conditional on the title being overriden.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:45:05 -0400
+
 ikiwiki (1.17) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Disable tidy generator tag.
diff --git a/doc/download.mdwn b/doc/download.mdwn
index 5076c2fe5..55c280984 100644
--- a/doc/download.mdwn
+++ b/doc/download.mdwn
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ If using Debian unstable or testing:
 
 Or download the deb from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ikiwiki>.
 
-While this deb has been developed on Debian unstable, it should also work on stable, although to get the CGI stuff working on stable, you will need to upgrade to a newer version of libcgi-formbuilder-perl, `3.02.02`.
+While this deb has been developed on Debian unstable, it should also work
+on stable, although to get the CGI stuff working on stable, you will need
+to upgrade to a newer version of libcgi-formbuilder-perl, `3.02.02`.
 
 # subversion
 
diff --git a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
index de04dcdd5..de16a9179 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ You can use any field names you like, but here are some predefined ones:
   Overrides the title of the page, which is generally the same as the
   page name.
 
+  Note that if the title is overrideen, a "title_overridden" variable will
+  be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things
+  differently in this case.
+
 * license
 
   Specifies a copyright license for the page, for example, "GPL".
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 6d9054389..950c4f1f9 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -116,13 +116,7 @@ used to generate the page. The function can manipulate that template
 object.
 
 The most common thing to do is probably to call $template->param() to add
-a new custom parameter to the template. Note that in order to be robust,
-it's a good idea to check whether the template has a variable before trying
-to set it, as setting a variable that's not present is an error.
-
-	if ($template->query(name => 'foo')) {
-		$template->param("foo" => "bar");
-	}
+a new custom parameter to the template.
 
 ## sanitize