X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/79312b2754571ac80253993217da2b0899086342..37bf6114d5aa19180001aedd78fef84e2fd6c103:/doc/plugins/contrib/trail.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/trail.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/trail.mdwn index 337e5d427..bfd4d3d0b 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/trail.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/trail.mdwn @@ -1,66 +1,133 @@ -[[!tag type/chrome patch]] -[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/trail author="[[smcv]]"]] +[[!tag patch]] +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/trail3 author="[[smcv]]"]] -Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `trail` branch. This -plugin aims to solve [[todo/wikitrails]] in a simpler way. +Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `trail3` branch. This +plugin aims to solve [[todo/wikitrails]] in a simpler way; it can also be +used for [[navigation through blog posts|todo/Pagination_next_prev_links]]. -Joey: what do you think of this plugin? If you like the general approach -and are likely to include it in ikiwiki, I'll try to modify -[[plugins/contrib/album]] to be based on it, rather than partially -reinventing it. +If you don't want to use a branch of ikiwiki, manual installation requires +these files (use the "raw" link in gitweb to download): -Bugs: +* [trail.pm](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/trail3:/IkiWiki/Plugin/trail.pm) + in an `IkiWiki/Plugin` subdirectory of your configured `plugindir` +* [page.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/trail3:/templates/page.tmpl) + and + [trails.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/trail3:/templates/trails.tmpl) + in your configured `templatedir`, or a `templates` subdirectory of your wiki repository +* the trail-related bits from the end of the + [stylesheet](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/trail3:/doc/style.css) + (put them in your local.css) +* the trail-related bits at the end of the + [actiontabs](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/trail3:/themes/actiontabs/style.css) + or [blueview/goldtype](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/trail3:/themes/blueview/style.css) + stylesheets, if you use one of those themes (again, put them in your local.css) -* \[[!inline pages="..." trail=yes]] currently tries to work out - what pages are in the trail, and their order, at scan time. That - won't work, because matching a pagespec at scan time is - unreliable - pages we want might not have been scanned yet! I - haven't worked out a solution for this. I think - \[[!inline pagenames="..." trail=yes]] would be safe, though. +The branch also includes [[todo/test_coverage]] machinery. + +Demo: + +* [in use on entries in my blog](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/) +* [a demo trail based on links](http://demo.hosted.pseudorandom.co.uk/trail/) +* [a demo hybrid trail/inline](http://demo.hosted.pseudorandom.co.uk/trail2/) + +The page `e` is in both demo trails, to demonstrate how a page in more than +one trail looks. + +The `smcv/trail2` branch is an older version of `trail3` which used typed links +as its data structure, resulting in timing-related limitations (it couldn't +select pages for the trail by using pagespecs, because pagespecs can't be +evaluated correctly until the scan stage has finished). + +Updated, November 2011: + +* reinstated `inline` integration ([[report]] integration would probably be + pretty easy too, if this gets merged) +* switched from typed links back to a custom data structure to avoid + chicken/egg problems with ordering +* create typed links too, as a side-effect, but not when using an inline +* regression test with nearly full coverage +* CSS for the default anti-theme and all built-in themes (it looks nicest + in the default anti-theme and in actiontabs - the demo uses actiontabs) + +Known bugs: + +* the blueview and goldtype CSS nearly work, but the alignment is a bit off ---- [[!template id=plugin name=trail author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] +[[!tag type/chrome]] -It's sometimes useful to have "trails" of pages in a wiki, as a guided -tour, sequence of chapters etc. In this plugin, a trail is represented -by a page, and the pages in the trail are indicated by specially marked -links within that page. +This plugin provides the [[ikiwiki/directive/trailoptions]], +[[ikiwiki/directive/traillink]], [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitem]], +[[ikiwiki/directive/trailitems]] +and [[ikiwiki/directive/trailinline]] [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]]. + +It's sometimes useful to have "trails" of pages in a wiki where each +page links to the next and/or previous page. For instance, you could use +this for a guided tour, sequence of chapters, or sequence of blog posts. + +In this plugin, a trail is represented by a page, and the pages in the +trail are indicated by specially marked links within that page, or by +including groups of pages with a [[ikiwiki/directive]]. If using the default `page.tmpl`, each page automatically displays the trails that it's a member of (if any), with links to the trail and to -the next and previous members. +the next and previous members. HTML `` tags with the `prev`, +`next` and `up` relations are also generated. + +The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailoptions]] directive sets options for the +entire trail. + +Pages can be included in a trail in various ways: + +* The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailinline]] directive sets up an [[inline]], + and at the same time adds the matching pages (from `pages` or `pagenames`) + to the trail. One use is to navigate through all posts in a blog: + + \[[!trailinline pages="page(./posts/*) and !*/Discussion" archive=yes + feedshow=10 quick=yes]] + + This directive only works if the [[!iki plugins/inline desc=inline]] + plugin is also enabled. -The `traillink` [[ikiwiki/directive]] is used to record which pages -are in a trail, and simultaneously link to them. Alternatively, the -[[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] directive can be used with `trail=yes` -to record the inlined pages as part of the trail, in the order in -which they are inlined. +* The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitems]] directive has optional `pages` and + `pagenames` options which behave the same as in [[inline]], but don't + produce any output in the page, so you can have trails that don't list + all their pages. -## Directives +* The [[ikiwiki/directive/traillink]] directive makes a visible link + and also adds the linked page to the trail. This will typically be + used in a bullet list, but could also be in paragraph text: -(These will go to the appropriate pages in [[ikiwiki/directive]] if this -plugin is included in ikiwiki.) + * [[!traillink Introduction]] + * [[!traillink "Chapter 1"]] + * [[!traillink Chapter_2]] + * [[!traillink Appendix_A]] -### traillink + or -The `traillink` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/contrib/trail desc=trail]] -plugin. This directive appears on the page representing a trail. It acts -as a visible [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]], but also records the linked page as -a member of the trail. + To use this software you must \[[!traillink install]] it, + \[[!traillink configuration text="configure it"]], + and finally \[[!traillink running|run_it]]. -Various syntaxes can be used: + This also counts as a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] for things like the `link()` + [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] item. - \[[!traillink Badgers]] - \[[!traillink How_to_find_mushrooms_using_badgers|badgers]] - \[[!traillink badgers text="How to find mushrooms using badgers"]] +* The [[ikiwiki/directive/trailitem]] directive adds a page to the trail + like `traillink`, but produces an invisible link, rather like `\[[!tag]]`: -### trailoptions + To use this software you must \[[!traillink install]] it, + \[[!trailitem installing_from_packages]] + \[[!trailitem installing_from_source]] + \[[!traillink configuration text="configure it"]], + and finally \[[!traillink running|run_it]]. + \[[!trailitem troubleshooting]] -The `trailoptions` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/contrib/trail desc=trail]] -plugin. This directive appears on the page representing a trail, and -produces no output. + Like `\[[!tag]]`, this still counts as a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] even though + there's no visible link. -Currently, the only option supported is `[[!trailoptions circular=yes]]`, -which adds links between the first and last pages, turning the trail into -a circle. +You can mix several of these directives in one page. The resulting +trail will contain all of the pages matched by any of the directives, +in the same order that the directives appear (unless you use the `sort` or +`reverse` options on `\[[!trailoptions]]`).