On 5-Dec-08, at 11:33 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
Moreover, it seems that names containing < and > and perhaps other special characters like the vertical bar can't be used in a link (and thus can't appear in a page title). I have tried
[[Documentation:procedure <]]
But that doesn't work (the system thinks that this is not a wiki link).
Anyone here know if there is a solution to this problem?
I changed the configuration of the Gambit wiki so that it now allows +, < and > in the title. So the proper way of writing the link for say fixnum->flonum is:
[[Documentation:Procedure fixnum->flonum|procedure <tt>fixnum- >flonum</tt>]]
There is no way to allow the hash character (i.e. #), because that is part of the URL syntax to indicate a location in the page. So I think the best that can be done is to substitute the Unicode sharp character (U+266F) in the page title part:
[[Documentation:Procedure ♯♯gc|procedure <tt>##gc</tt>]]
It gives a strange looking hash sign, and it may not appear properly in all browsers. Moreover you have to map hash characters to sharp characters for linking to a Gambit wiki documentation page, e.g. the URL for the procedure ##gc is:
http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php?title=Documentation:Pr...
To be safe, other special characters will probably have to be escaped in the URL.
Marc