From: joey Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:53:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: web commit by http://madduck.myopenid.com/: clarify the legitimate use of spaces... X-Git-Tag: 2.9~44 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=76a9072a28a2677949eca485f0811ec26d260a4a;p=ikiwiki.git web commit by madduck.myopenid.com/: clarify the legitimate use of spaces in wikilinks --- diff --git a/doc/wikilink.mdwn b/doc/wikilink.mdwn index 894cfdbfe..9f4cb3876 100644 --- a/doc/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/doc/wikilink.mdwn @@ -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