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@ -27,3 +27,27 @@ I have written additional plugins which integrate with the [[plugins/contrib/fie
* [[plugins/contrib/ymlfront]] - looks for YAML-format data at the front of a page; this is just one possible back-end for the structured data * [[plugins/contrib/ymlfront]] - looks for YAML-format data at the front of a page; this is just one possible back-end for the structured data
--[[KathrynAndersen]] --[[KathrynAndersen]]
> I'm not an IkiWiki committer ([[Joey]] is the only one I think)
> but I really like the look of this scheme. In particular,
> having `getfield` interop with `field` without being *part of*
> `field` makes me happy, since I'm not very keen on `getfield`'s
> syntax (i.e. "ugh, yet another mini-markup-language without a
> proper escaping mechanism"), but this way people can experiment
> with different syntaxes while keeping `field` for the
> behind-the-scenes bits.
>
> My [[plugins/contrib/album]] plugin could benefit from
> integration with [[field]] for photos' captions and so on,
> probably... I'll try to work on that at some point.
>
> [[plugins/contrib/report]] may be doing too much, though:
> it seems to be an variation on `\[[inline archive="yes"]]`,
> with an enhanced version of sorting, a mini version of
> [[todo/wikitrails]], and some other misc. I suspect it could
> usefully be divided up into discrete features? One good way
> to do that might be to shuffle bits of its functionality into
> the IkiWiki distribution and/or separate plugins, until there's
> nothing left in `report` itself and it can just go away.
>
> --[[smcv]]