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authorjoey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071>2007-09-24 17:53:46 +0000
committerjoey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071>2007-09-24 17:53:46 +0000
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web commit by http://madduck.myopenid.com/: clarify the legitimate use of spaces in wikilinks
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@@ -18,11 +18,10 @@ 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]]. The reason you
-have to (well, *should*) use underscores in place of spaces is so that
-`ikiwiki` can distinguish your WikiLink from a PreprocessorDirective.
+**have to use underscores in place of spaces in WikiLinks** is so that `ikiwiki`
+can distinguish your WikiLink from a PreprocessorDirective.
+(Note: you *can* actually use spaces if you specify the target link following the
+pipe symbil (`|`), as in the above.
To link to an anchor inside a page, you can use something like
-`\[[WikiLink#foo]]`
-
-**Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks**. Replace spaces with
-underscores.
+`\[[WikiLink#foo]]` \ No newline at end of file