I should be subscribed now. I don't know if others have encountered
problems subscribing to the list, but if so, they don't have the
option I did of just logging onto the server and subscribing myself
manually. I don't know much about mailman, so maybe I'm not the best
one to investigate.
While I'm here, let me express my take on Brion's suggestion for the
pipe-shortcut: I don't like the suggestion. The syntax of a language
intended for non-technical folks should be as simple and unsurprizing
as possible. If we can throw a bone to the old hands now and then to
make their job easier too, that's fine--that's why I added the pipe
trick in the first place. But if "xxxxx" is a valid page title, then
the simple notation [[xxx]] should link to that page, in every case,
not just the most common ones. Brion's suggestion would not make a
special expert syntax, it would make a special case of /names/ that
don't obey the standard syntax. I think that's more surprizing than
the alternatives.
What I /would/ support is changing the piped syntax so that it was
interpreted at render time rather than save time; so that, for
example, [[Mercury (planet)|]] would remain in the page source code
as is, rather than being expanded right away.
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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