[pmwiki-users] Problem wih Include Directives

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:01:42PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> --- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Oh, wait!  After thinking about it a bit I think I
> > may have a reasonable answer.  I just need a good 
> > page variable marker that means "included page" 
> > as opposed to "current page", similar to how 
> > {=$Name} is different from {$Name} in pagelist
> > templates.
> 
> That would be a tremendous improvement to pmwiki, it
> would also solve the longstanding issues with titles 
> and includes!  Some suggestions:
> 
>  {.$Title}  I like this one, unambiguous?
> 
>  {~$Title}  Looks nice, too home directory like?
>  {^$Title}  Looks nice, implies parent(bad)?
> 
>  {&$Title}  Not pretty, but does seem to convey "here"
>  {*$Title}  Conveys anywhere?
>  {:$Title}  Too much like a directive?

None of those leap out at me (but I admit it's a difficult
thing).

How about {<<$Title}, to mean "$Title of the outer include"?
Would that be too close to {<$Title} ?

Pm