On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:15 +0100, Phil Boswell wrote:
"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote in message news:429C002F.3020207@gmx.de... [snip]
Whether we should create synonyms beyond the simple Image=>File redirect when we don't have special ways of dealing with these file types yet is arguable. The current behavior would be that [[Sound:soundfile.ogg]] would link to the file description page for that file, but not embed it (so would [[Image:soundfile.ogg]]). But it might be enough to have [[File:Soundfile.ogg]] for this purpose for now.
I suppose it would be too much to hope that we could extend the {{}} syntax to images, wherein {{Image:Some-nice_picture.jpg}} embedded the image and [[Image:Some-nice_picture.jpg]] simply linked to the description page?
Actually, that's almost precisely what the syntax I'm working on does; embedded images are, after all, more like inclusions than links, so I use the same syntax for embedded images, inclusions, extensions like math, nowiki, comments, and variables (which are like min-inclusions).