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| author | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2007-09-24 17:53:46 +0000 |
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| committer | joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071> | 2007-09-24 17:53:46 +0000 |
| commit | 76a9072a28a2677949eca485f0811ec26d260a4a (patch) | |
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web commit by http://madduck.myopenid.com/: clarify the legitimate use of spaces in wikilinks
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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]]`
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