ave the pipe character for cases where the link name & display name are completely different. how about reversing: }{ so it's always anything that's on the "belly" side of a { or } thats hidden + put on the [[One }Ring{]] = put on the [[One Ring|Ring]] Shown as: put on the _Ring_ + called [[George }W{. Bush]] = called [[George W. Bush|W]] during the campaign Shows as: called _W_ during the campaign Poor, Edmund W wrote:

I'd vote for the double straight line because it's already used in links, and people are used to it. It's not hard to surround the characters you want to show up. A normal bracket is already used in disambiguation headers, so we don't want to use that, and the addition of other brackets is extra confusing. + bought an [[|English| language]] textbook = bought an [[English language|English]] textbook Shown as: bought an _English_ textbook -- Karen AKA Kajikit And on the seventh day, God said 'What my world needs is a creature that will truly appreciate it in all its facets' - and so He made the kitten. Come and visit my part of the web: Kajikit's Corner: http://Kajikit.netfirms.com/ Aussie Support Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AussieSupport Allergyfree Eating Recipe Swap: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Allergyfree_Eating Ample Aussies Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ampleaussies/ Love and huggles to all!