+
+> > thanks a lot, that's a quite straightforward solution. I actually wrote a
+> > broken plugin to do that, and now I can ditch it --[[jerojasro]]
+
+>>> The plugin approach is not a bad idea if you want either the ability
+>>> to:
+>>>
+>>> * Have things that are wikilink-aware (like [[plugins/brokenlinks]]
+>>> treat your link to the image as a wikilink.
+>>> * Use standard wikilink path stuff (and not have to worry about
+>>> a relative html link breaking if the page it's on is inlined, for
+>>> example).
+>>>
+>>> I can help you bang that plugin into shape if need be. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> both my plugin and your suggestion yield broken html links when inlining the page (although probably that's what is expected from your suggestion (`[]()`))
+>>>>
+>>>> I thought using the `bestlink` function would take care of that, but alas, it doesn't.
+>>>> Get the "plugin" [here](http://devnull.li/~jerojasro/files/linktoimgonly.pm), see the broken
+>>>> links generated [here](http://devnull.li/~jerojasro/blog/posts/job_offers/) and the source
+>>>> file for that page [here](http://git.devnull.li/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=blog-jerojasro.git;a=blob;f=posts/job_offers.mdwn;hb=HEAD) --[[jerojasro]]
+
+>>>>> Use this --[[Joey]]
+
+ return htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $params{"img"},
+ linktext => $params{text},
+ noimageinline => 1);
+
+> [[patch]]: I've updated this plugin for the current ikiwiki. --[[wtk]]