Re: Titles on external links

On Saturday 08 April 2006 5:27 pm, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 08 Apr 06, David W. Talmage ([email protected]) wrote:
> > You found this in parser.awk:
> >
> > sub(/((https?|ftp|gopher):\/\/|(mailto|news):)[^\t]*[^.,?;:'")\t]/, "<a
> > href=\"&\">&</a>",field)
>
> Yes, thats what I was looking at.
>
> > Is there a standard Wiki markup for naming the title of an external link?
>
> Well, the original WikiWikiWeb http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TextFormattingRules
> uses the same link formatting as awkiawki. Though wikipedia[0] uses the
> syntax [http://www.foo.com The Foo Page]

Instiki uses "linkname":URL.  If you chose syntax like that, then it should be 
relatively easy to recognize in parser.awk.  The pattern should be something 
like the pattern that matches https, ftp, and gopher but it would begin with 
an expression that matches quoted strings.  Something like this:

\"[[:print]]\":(https?|ftp|gopher|mailto|news):/

I haven't tested this.

If you're interested, http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk has the GNU AWK manual 
on line.  It's good.

David Talmage


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