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diff --git a/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn b/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn index 5b4c6fe00..b6b8de79f 100644 --- a/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn +++ b/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn @@ -89,12 +89,15 @@ could look something like this: The next/previous part this plugin overlaps with [[todo/wikitrails]]. -A \[[!galleryimg]] directive to assign metadata to images is probably necessary, so +A \[[!galleryimg]] directive to assign metadata to images might be necessary, so the gallery page can contain something like: \[[!galleryimg p1010001.jpg title="..." caption="..." tags="foo"]] \[[!galleryimg p1010002.jpg title="..." caption="..." tags="foo bar"]] +However, allowing other pages to push in metadata like that will make +dependency tracking difficult. + Making the viewer pages could be rather tricky. Here are some options: "synthesize source pages for viewers" is the one I'm leaning towards at the moment. @@ -105,9 +108,19 @@ One possibility is to write out the viewer pages as a side-effect of preprocessing the \[[!gallery]] directive. The proof-of-concept implementation below does this. However, this does mean the viewer pages can't have tags or metadata of their own and can't be matched by [[pagespecs|ikiwiki/pagespec]] or -[[wikilinks|ikiwiki/wikilink]]. It might be possible to implement tagging by -using \[[!galleryimg]] to assign the metadata to the *images* instead of their -viewers. +[[wikilinks|ikiwiki/wikilink]]. + +It might be possible to implement tagging by using \[[!galleryimg]] to assign +the metadata to the *images* instead of their viewers; however, that would +require hacking up both `IkiWiki::htmllink` and `IkiWiki::urlto` to redirect +links to the image (e.g. from the \[[!map]] on a tag page) to become links to +the viewer page. + +Modifications to the comments plugin would also be required, to make it allow +comments written to `foo/bar/comment_1._comment` even though the page foo/bar +does not really exist, and display comments on the viewer pages even though +they're not real pages. (Writing comments to `foo/bar.jpg/*._comment` is not +an option!) ### Synthesize source pages for viewers |