doc/todo/more_customisable_titlepage_function.mdwn



I understand the IkiWiki::titlepage function is used to generate filenames from titles. It would be nice if there were an easier way to override what it does. I suppose I could write an external plugin and call inject, but maybe this could instead be done via the configuration file?
I imagine two things: a lookup hash and a template.
Since IkiWiki::titlepage basically translates characters, it would be cool to be able to define a lookup hash in the configuration, which would be consulted before falling back to the generic __xx__ ord() representation of a letter. For instance, in German, I might prefer to have 'Ã¤' become 'ae' instead of something illegible.
Second, maybe a template could be honoured. The template could have a slot %s where the calculated title goes, and it could contain strftime symbols as well as variables, which get interpolated on use.
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