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-rw-r--r--doc/download.mdwn8
-rw-r--r--doc/helponformatting.mdwn58
-rw-r--r--doc/plugins.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--doc/plugins/write.mdwn53
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/adding_new_pages_by_using_the_web_interface.mdwn28
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/done/html.mdwn4
7 files changed, 68 insertions, 108 deletions
diff --git a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn
index 476525e3c..197f09394 100644
--- a/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn
+++ b/doc/about_rcs_backends.mdwn
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-## A few bits about the RCS backends
+# A few bits about the RCS backends
-### Terminology
+## Terminology
``web-edit'' means that a page is edited by using the web (CGI) interface
as opposed to using a editor and the RCS interface.
-### [[Subversion]]
+## [[Subversion]]
Subversion was the first RCS to be supported by ikiwiki.
-#### How does it work internally?
+### How does it work internally?
Master repository M.
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ see [[commit-internals]].
You browse and web-edit the wiki on W.
-### [darcs](http://darcs.net/) (not yet included)
+## [darcs](http://darcs.net/) (not yet included)
Support for using darcs as a backend is being worked on by [Thomas
Schwinge](mailto:tschwinge@gnu.org).
-#### How will it work internally?
+### How will it work internally?
``Master'' repository R1.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ separated parts in ikiwiki.
What repository should [[RecentChanges]] and [[History]] work on? R1?
-##### Rationale for doing it differently than in the Subversion case
+#### Rationale for doing it differently than in the Subversion case
darcs is a distributed RCS, which means that every checkout of a
repository is equal to the repository it was checked-out from. There is
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ off from R1.
(To be continued.)
-### [[Git]] (not yet included)
+## [[Git]] (not yet included)
A patch with full [Git](http://git.or.cz) support is at <http://people.debian.org/~roktas/patches/ikiwiki/git.patch>. Regarding the patch, Recai says:
@@ -121,4 +121,4 @@ Some other notes:
It works for me, but of course in the end, the final decision is yours (due
to mostly GIT quirks, the implementation is not clean as SVN). Feel free
-to fix/delete/add whatever you want. Hope it doesn't have any serious bug. \ No newline at end of file
+to fix/delete/add whatever you want. Hope it doesn't have any serious bug.
diff --git a/doc/download.mdwn b/doc/download.mdwn
index bc58b178b..e64d1984c 100644
--- a/doc/download.mdwn
+++ b/doc/download.mdwn
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
Here's how to get ikiwiki. See [[setup]] for how to use it, and be sure to add your wiki to [[IkiwikiUsers]] if you use ikiwiki.
-## tarball
+# tarball
The best place to download a tarball of the latest release is from
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>.
-## Debian package
+# Debian package
If using Debian unstable, or soon, testing:
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ 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`.
-## subversion
+# subversion
The current development version of ikiwiki can be accessed using subversion at
`svn://svn.kitenet.net/ikiwiki/trunk`
-The source in subversion can be browsed [with viewcvs](http://svn.kitenet.net/trunk/?root=ikiwiki). \ No newline at end of file
+The source in subversion can be browsed [with viewcvs](http://svn.kitenet.net/trunk/?root=ikiwiki).
diff --git a/doc/helponformatting.mdwn b/doc/helponformatting.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e3958a61..000000000
--- a/doc/helponformatting.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-## Help on formatting text
-
-Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write
-text for an email message. This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].
-
-Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
-
-You can \**emphasise*\* or \*\***strongly emphasise**\*\* text by placing it
-in single or double asterisks.
-
-To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
-
-* "* this is my list"
-* "* another item"
-
-To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
-do) followed by a period:
-
-1. "1. first line"
-2. "2. second line"
-2. "2. third line"
-
-To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
-by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
-size of the header:
-
-## ## h2
-### ### h3
-#### #### h4
-
-To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own
-line:
-
-----
-
-To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
-
-> To be or not to be,
-> that is the question.
-
-To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 8 spaces:
-
- 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
- 20 GOTO 10
-
-To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
-square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
-
-To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net>>, or you can use the form
-\[link text\]\(url\)
-
-----
-
-Advanced users can use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool
-stuff.
-
-Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert
-[[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.
diff --git a/doc/plugins.mdwn b/doc/plugins.mdwn
index 5596586b3..2c184900c 100644
--- a/doc/plugins.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins.mdwn
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
-There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by others.
+There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can
+install and use plugins contributed by others.
The [[inline]] and [[htmlscrubber]] plugins are enabled by default.
To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]],
or the equivalent line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
-## Plugin directory
+# Plugin directory
Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="60"]]
-## Installing third party plugins
+# Installing third party plugins
Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl
module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of `perl -V`
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 6c013cd4a..245f7c9ee 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lowercase, such as `IkiWiki::Plugin::inline`. Ikiwiki includes a
`IkiWiki::Plugin::skeleton` that can be fleshed out to make a useful
plugin. `IkiWiki::Plugin::pagecount` is another simple example.
-## Note
+# Note
One thing to keep in mind when writing a plugin is that ikiwiki is a wiki
*compiler*. So plugins influence pages when they are built, not when they
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ random or changing thing on a page will generate a static page that won't
change until ikiwiki rebuilds the page for some other reason, like the page
being edited.
-## Registering plugins
+# Registering plugins
Plugins should, when imported, call IkiWiki::hook to hook into ikiwiki's
processing. The function uses named parameters, and use varies depending on
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ hook, a "id" paramter, which should be a unique string for this plugin, and
a "call" parameter, which is a reference to a function to call for the
hook.
-## Writing a [[PreProcessorDirective]]
+# Writing a [[PreProcessorDirective]]
This is probably the most common use of a plugin.
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ Each time the directive is processed, the referenced function (`preprocess` in t
as named parameters as well. Whatever the function returns goes onto the
page in place of the directive.
-### Error handing
+## Error handing
While a plugin can call ikiwiki's error routine for a fatal error, for
errors that aren't intended to halt the entire wiki build, including bad
parameters passed to a [[PreProcessorDirective]], etc, it's better to just
return the error message as the output of the plugin.
-### Html issues
+## Html issues
Note that if the [[htmlscrubber]] is enabled, html in
[[PreProcessorDirective]] output is sanitised, which may limit what your
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ plugin can do. Also, the rest of the page content is not in html format at
preprocessor time. Text output by a preprocessor directive will be passed
through markdown along with the rest of the page.
-## Other types of hooks
+# Other types of hooks
Beyond PreProcessorDirectives, Other types of hooks that can be used by
plugins include:
-### checkconfig
+## checkconfig
IkiWiki::hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "foo", call => \&checkconfig);
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ configuration. It's called early in the ikiwiki startup process. The
function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call
IkiWiki::error if something isn't configured right.
-### filter
+## filter
IkiWiki::hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can
make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters `page` and
`content` and should return the filtered content.
-### sanitize
+## sanitize
IkiWiki::hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&sanitize);
@@ -86,14 +86,25 @@ modify the content of a page after it has been fully converted to html.
The function is passed the page content and should return the sanitized
content.
-### delete
+## pagetemplate
+
+ IkiWiki::hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
+
+Each time a page is rendered, a [[template|templates]] is filled out.
+This hook allows modifying that template. The function is passed the name
+of the page, and a `HTML::Template` object that is the template that will
+be used to generate the page. It can manipulate that template, the most
+common thing to do is probably to call $template->param() to add a new
+custom parameter to the template.
+
+## delete
IkiWiki::hook(type => "delete", id => "foo", call => \&dele);
Each time a page or pages is removed from the wiki, the referenced function
is called, and passed the names of the source files that were removed.
-### change
+## change
IkiWiki::hook(type => "change", id => "foo", call => \&render);
@@ -101,7 +112,7 @@ Each time ikiwiki renders a change or addition (but not deletion) to the
wiki, the referenced function is called, and passed the names of the
source files that were rendered.
-### cgi
+## cgi
IkiWiki::hook(type => "cgi", id => "foo", call => \&cgi);
@@ -110,13 +121,13 @@ called in turn, and passed a CGI object. The hook should examine the
parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page and
terminate the program.
-## Wiki configuration
+# Wiki configuration
A plugin can access the wiki's configuration via the `%IkiWiki::config`
hash. The best way to understand the contents of the hash is to look at
[[ikiwiki.setup]], which sets the hash content to configure the wiki.
-## Wiki data
+# Wiki data
If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can
use the following hashes, using a page name as the key:
@@ -136,19 +147,7 @@ use the following hashes, using a page name as the key:
it is by using the IkiWiki::add_depends function, which takes as its
parameters the page name and a [[GlobList]] of dependencies to add.
-## Page templates
-
-Plugins are mostly limited to changing the content of pages, to change the
-look and feel of the wiki it's generally better to use a stylesheet and
-[[templates]]. However, there are some hooks in the templates that plugins
-can use to add stuff to the wiki's UI:
-
-### Adding content to the page header
-
-Html that is added to $IkiWiki::config{headercontent} will show up in the
-header of the page. One good thing to put here is a search form.
-
-## RCS plugins
+# RCS plugins
ikiwiki's support for revision control systems also uses pluggable perl
modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
diff --git a/doc/todo/adding_new_pages_by_using_the_web_interface.mdwn b/doc/todo/adding_new_pages_by_using_the_web_interface.mdwn
index 65de469fb..e24ab1232 100644
--- a/doc/todo/adding_new_pages_by_using_the_web_interface.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/adding_new_pages_by_using_the_web_interface.mdwn
@@ -1,8 +1,26 @@
-Perhaps I'm just too stupid to find the proper way to do this, but how would I add a new page to the wiki without selecting to edit an already installed one and frobbing the URL to direct to the to-be-created page? --[[ThomasSchwinge]]
+Perhaps I'm just too stupid to find the proper way to do this, but how
+would I add a new page to the wiki without selecting to edit an already
+installed one and frobbing the URL to direct to the to-be-created page?
+--[[ThomasSchwinge]]
-Good point. Of course one way is to start with creating a link to the page, which also helps prevent orphans. But other wikis based on CGI do have this a bit easier, since they can detect an attempt to access a nonexistant page and show an edit page. Ikiwiki can't do that (unless its web server is configured to do smart things on a 404).
+Good point. Of course one way is to start with creating a link to the page,
+which also helps prevent orphans. But other wikis based on CGI do have this
+a bit easier, since they can detect an attempt to access a nonexistant page
+and show an edit page. Ikiwiki can't do that (unless its web server is
+configured to do smart things on a 404, like maybe call ikiwiki.cgi which
+could be modified to work as a smart 404 -> edit handler).
-Some wikis also provide a UI means for creating a new page. If we can find something good, that can be added to ikiwiki's UI. --[[Joey]]
+Some wikis also provide a UI means for creating a new page. If we can find
+something good, that can be added to ikiwiki's UI. --[[Joey]]
-Hmm, maybe just a preprocessor directive that creates a form inside a page, like is used for blog posting already would suffice? Then the main page of a wiki could have a form for adding new pages, if that directive were included there.
-Won't work for subpages though, unless the directive were added to the parent page. However, unconnected subpages are surely an even rarer thing to want than unconnected top level pages. --[[Joey]] \ No newline at end of file
+Hmm, maybe just a preprocessor directive that creates a form inside a page,
+like is used for blog posting already would suffice? Then the main page of
+a wiki could have a form for adding new pages, if that directive were
+included there. Won't work for subpages though, unless the directive were
+added to the parent page. However, unconnected subpages are surely an even
+rarer thing to want than unconnected top level pages. --[[Joey]]
+
+Maybe a very simple PHP frontend for serving the
+statically generated pages, that would display a page editing form or
+something like that for non-existent pages, wouldn't be too bad a thing
+and resource hog? Just a thought... --[[Tuomov]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/done/html.mdwn b/doc/todo/done/html.mdwn
index 96dc0b476..e74a979ca 100644
--- a/doc/todo/done/html.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/done/html.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-## html validation
+# html validation
* A doctype: XHTML 1.0 strict.
* &lt;hr&gt; to &lt;hr /&gt; etc.
* Image wikilinks provide an alt text.
- * &'s in (cgi-)url's escaped as &amp;amp;. \ No newline at end of file
+ * &'s in (cgi-)url's escaped as &amp;amp;.