Add a suggestion

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / conditional_text_based_on_ikiwiki_features.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/conditional_text_based_on_ikiwiki_features.mdwn b/doc/todo/conditional_text_based_on_ikiwiki_features.mdwn
index 4b984cf5a1200fa083dbe0b55af75d213c6e35da..4bdcf3d0121c8cfe249485bb506c4443520e86d0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/conditional_text_based_on_ikiwiki_features.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/conditional_text_based_on_ikiwiki_features.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 I'd like to see some way to conditionally include wiki text based on
 whether the wiki enables or disables certain features.  For example,
-[[ikiwiki/formatting]], could use `\[[if (enabled smiley) """Also, because
+[[ikiwiki/formatting]], could use `\[[!if (enabled smiley) """Also, because
 this wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, you can insert \[[smileys]] and
 some other useful symbols."""]]`, and a standard template for [[plugins]]
 pages could check for the given plugin name to print "enabled" or
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Syntax could vary greatly here, both for the
 > As to the syntax, to fit it into standard preprocessor syntax, it would
 > need to look something like this:
 >
->      \[[if test="enabled(smiley)" """foo"""]]
+>      \[[!if test="enabled(smiley)" """foo"""]]
 > 
 > --[[Joey]]
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Syntax could vary greatly here, both for the
 >>
 >> A few use cases for `included`, which I would really like to see:
 >>
->> * On the sidebar page, you could say something like \[[if test="!included"
+>> * On the sidebar page, you could say something like \[[!if test="!included"
 >>   """This page, without this help message, appears as a sidebar on all
 >>   pages."""]].  The help text would then only appear on the sidebar page
 >>   itself, not the sidebar included on all pages.
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ This is now completely [[todo/done]]! See [[plugins/conditional]].
 Is there a way to test features other than plugins? For example,
 to add to [[ikiwiki/Markdown]] something like
 
-    \[[if test="enabled(multimarkdown)" then="You can also use..."]]
+    \[[!if test="enabled(multimarkdown)" then="You can also use..."]]
 
 (I tried it like that just to see if it would work, but I wasn't that lucky.)
 --ChapmanFlack
@@ -119,3 +119,10 @@ to add to [[ikiwiki/Markdown]] something like
 > page for multimarkdown is a path to madness or unreadability though.
 > Perhaps it would be better to have .mmdwn files that can only contain
 > multimarkdown? --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Really, there was only one (or maybe two) pages I had in mind as appropriate
+>> places for conditional text based on multimarkdown—the underlay pages
+>> for 'markdown' and maybe also 'formatting', because those are the pages you
+>> look at when you're trying to find out how to mark stuff up for the wiki, so
+>> if MM is enabled, they need to at least mention it and have a link to the
+>> MM syntax guide.--ChapmanFlack