From 0f161466681edb38a1ff8fc94ab4dc6ec85577f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://anastigmatix.net/" Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:16:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] a wish for more from pagetemplate --- ..._44___edittemplate_more_similar__63__.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/make_localstyle__44___pagetemplate__44___edittemplate_more_similar__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/make_localstyle__44___pagetemplate__44___edittemplate_more_similar__63__.mdwn b/doc/todo/make_localstyle__44___pagetemplate__44___edittemplate_more_similar__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..78a3cf476 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/make_localstyle__44___pagetemplate__44___edittemplate_more_similar__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +If I'm reading the docs right, I count three different ways +of associating some local styling information with a portion +of a site: + +* [[plugins/localstyle]] uses the [[ikiwiki/subpage/LinkingRules]] to find the 'nearest' stylesheet +* [[plugins/edittemplate]] uses a directive with a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] to indicate which + pages should get which templates +* [[plugins/pagetemplate]] doesn't do a thing for you unless you shoehorn a + `pagetemplate` directive into every affected page. + +That last is the one that seems least useful. The [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] approach seems +most flexible. + +Would it be a bad thing to allow `pagetemplate` to work the way `edittmplate` does? +Maybe just extend the existing directive? If it has a `pages` parameter, it specifies +the template for the supplied [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], otherwise it just affects the enclosing page +as it does now? + +--Chap