FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] a few thoughts on acronyms in DW

[Jason Keltz <jas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

There have been many cases where I have seen simple DW plugins and 
wished that they had just been bundled with DW to make my life of 
maintaining our DW installation easier.  However, I've found a case 
where I wish functionality in DW would actually be unbundled and placed 
into a plugin! Imagine that!  The acronym functionality built into DW is 
simple, and great.  DW comes with its own acronyms.conf which can be 
over-ridden by a sites acronyms.local.conf.  However, sometimes it is 
necessary to define/re-define an acronym for a single page which the 
built-in functionality doesn't allow. There's a "term" plugin on the DW 
site (though no download link, and references that it doesn't seem to 
work with current DW installations), but while it allows you to ADD an 
acronym for a page, it doesn't allow you to over-ride one.  I don't have 
any knowledge on the internals of DW plugins, but I imagine this is 
because something simple like by the time the plugin sees the markup, DW 
has already inserted the acronyms from acronyms.local.conf.  Maybe the 
entire acronym functionality would best be a plugin which handles the 
whole thing -- looking in the standard acronyms.conf, allowing 
over-rides by acronyms.local.conf, and allowing further page over-rides 
by some syntax markup.  In cases where sites don't care about acronyms, 
removing the plugin removes the functionality.
Jason.

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