X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/bd8d5a2b57713cae512c4f8dc41fe4b22dcbe941..b4d5e911da7666d7d9a56bf143ee5ee6f1eab403:/doc/wikilink.mdwn diff --git a/doc/wikilink.mdwn b/doc/wikilink.mdwn index 9586bfa44..a085ab7a7 100644 --- a/doc/wikilink.mdwn +++ b/doc/wikilink.mdwn @@ -2,23 +2,25 @@ WikiLinks provide easy linking between pages of the wiki. To create a [[WikiLink]], just put the name of the page to link to in double brackets. For example "\[[WikiLink]]". -The file name associated with a wiki link is create as follows: capital -letters converted to lower case and spaces to underscores. Finally, -the file extention is added. - -If you ever need to write something like "\[[WikiLink]] without creating a +If you ever need to write something like "\[[WikiLink]]" without creating a wikilink, just prefix it with a "\", like "\\\\[[WikiLink]]". There are some special [[SubPage/LinkingRules]] that come into play when -linking between [[SubPage]]s. +linking between [[SubPages|SubPage]]. Also, if the file linked to by a WikiLink looks like an image, it will be displayed inline on the page. -WikiLinks are matched with page names in a case-insensative manner, so you +WikiLinks are matched with page names in a case-insensitive manner, so you don't need to worry about getting the case the same, and can capitalise links at the start of a sentence, and so on. It's also possible to write a WikiLink that uses something other than the page name as the link text. For example "\[[foo_bar|SandBox]]" links to the SandBox page, but the link will appear like this: [[foo_bar|SandBox]] + +To link to an anchor inside a page, you can use something like +"\[[WikiLink#foo]]" + +**Note that you cannot use spaces in WikiLinks**. Replace spaces with +underscores.