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diff --git a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn index bf30fba4e..4a83f9ec8 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn @@ -212,3 +212,22 @@ So, looking at your meta branch: --[[Joey]] > preference goes the other way, perhaps a `\[[!meta longtitle=""]]` could take > precedence when generating the `<title>` and the title that comes after the > parentlinks. --[[smcv]] + +>> I think you've convinced me. (I had always had some doubt in my mind as +>> to whether using titles in all these other places would make sense.) +>> +>> Instead of meta abbrev, you could have a meta pagename that +>> overrides the page name displayed everywhere (in turn overridden by +>> meta title iff the page's title is being displayed). But is this complexity +>> needed? We have meta redir, so if you want to change the name of a page, +>> you can just rename it, and put in a stub redirection page so links +>> still work. +>> +>> This leaves the [[plugins/contrib/po]] plugin, which really does need +>> a way to change the displayed page name everywhere, and at least a +>> subset of the changes in the meta branch are needed to support that. +>> +>> (This would also get around my concern about inter-page dependency +>> handling, since po contains a workaround for that, and it's probably +>> acceptable to use potentially slow methods to handle this case.) +>> --[[Joey]] |