[e-lang] Convert Walnut to MediaWiki
Mark S. Miller
markm at cs.jhu.edu
Sun Dec 10 18:33:47 CST 2006
James Graves wrote:
> Mark S. Miller wrote:
>> [...why we need to use transclusion to gather pages...]
>
> Hah! As it turns out, Martin has already fixed all of this.
>
> There is a way to include wiki pages within others. And that's exactly
> what he's done.
>
> So there is no duplication. All the different versions are actually
> pulling from the same set of "section-split" wiki pages.
>
> If you look closely at the section edit links, you'll see that they go
> back to the "section-split" versions too. So everything is pointing
> back to the same source, and you can edit them either way. Neat.
That's great. I had a look, and it's quite clean. We should be able to use the
same technique to transclude stereotyped updoc header info at the top of
updoc-able pages.
>>> We'll still have to manually add "next" and "previous" links to make
>>> reading Walnut easy. But that is only a little bit of work.
>>> [...]
> It would still be nice to have this. However, we don't really what that
> inter-section navigation to appear on the "chapter-split" and "complete"
> versions of Walnut.
>
> There's probably a way to do this with templates or something.
Yes, this can wait. What's a template?
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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