hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can
-make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters `page` and
-`content` and should return the filtered content.
+make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters "page",
+"destpage", and "content". It should return the filtered content.
### preprocess
object that is the template that will be used to generate the page. The
function can manipulate that template object.
-The most common thing to do is probably to call $template->param() to add
+The most common thing to do is probably to call `$template->param()` to add
a new custom parameter to the template.
### sanitize
Use this to hook into ikiwiki's cgi script. Each registered cgi hook is
called in turn, and passed a CGI object. The hook should examine the
-parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page and
+parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page (including the http headers) and
terminate the program.
### auth
Hook into ikiwiki's processing. See the discussion of hooks above.
Note that in addition to the named parameters described above, a parameter
-named no_override is supported, If it's set to a true value, then this hook
+named `no_override` is supported, If it's set to a true value, then this hook
will not override any existing hook with the same id. This is useful if
the id can be controled by the user.
Creates and returns a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter
is the name of the file in the template directory. The optional remaining
-parameters are passed to HTML::Template->new.
+parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
#### `htmlpage($)`
If the destination directory doesn't exist, it will first be created.
-### `will_render($$)`
+#### `will_render($$)`
Given a page name and a destination file name (not including the base
destination directory), register that the page will result in that file
#### `urlto($$)`
-Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the second.
+Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the
+second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other
+destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
#### `targetpage($$)`
modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
`IkiWiki::RCS::svn`.
-Each RCS plugin must support all the IkiWiki::rcs\_* functions.
+Each RCS plugin must support all the `IkiWiki::rcs_*` functions.
See IkiWiki::RCS::Stub for the full list of functions. It's ok if
-rcs\_getctime does nothing except for throwing an error.
+`rcs_getctime` does nothing except for throwing an error.
See [[about_RCS_backends]] for some more info.