commenting on the link-text-from-title idea

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@@ -84,3 +84,8 @@ Is it possible to refer to a page, say \[[foobar]], such that the link text is t
 > Not yet. :-) Any suggestion for a syntax for it? Maybe something like \[[|foobar]] ? --[[Joey]]
 
 I like your suggestion because it's short and conscise. However, it would be nice to be able to refer to more or less arbitrary meta tags in links, not just "title". To do that, the link needs two parameters: the page name and the tag name, i.e. \[[pagename!metatag]]. Any sufficiently weird separater can be used instead of '!', of course. I like \[[pagename->metatag]], too, because it reminds me of accessing a data member of a structure (which is what referencing a meta tag is, really). --Peter
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+> I dislike \[[pagename->metatag]] because other wikis use that as their normal link/label syntax.
+> I'm not sure that it is a good idea to refer to arbitrary meta tags in links in the first place - what other meta tags would you really be interested in?  Description?  Author?  It makes sense to me to refer to the title, because that is a "label" for a page.
+> As for syntax, I do like the \[[|foobar]] idea, or perhaps something like what <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org">PmWiki</a> does - they have their links the other way around, so they go \[[page|label]] and for link-text-as-title, they have \[[page|+]].  So for IkiWiki, that would be \[[+|page]] I guess.
+> --[[KathrynAndersen]]