From: joey Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:04:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: clarify that templates can contain wiki markup X-Git-Tag: 1.43~90 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=059a15743ac0d125b4b5da36cffcf3a646a10706;p=ikiwiki.git clarify that templates can contain wiki markup --- diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index e7c27101e..b6083d225 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: To create a template, make a page in the wiki named `template/foo`. Note that this is a different location than the directory used for the -[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not inside the wiki. +[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not part of the wiki. The template uses the syntax used by the [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ few things: * To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not, use `textother text` +The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page +that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki +markup in the template. + Here's a sample template: