FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: plugins: provide a syntax wiki page

[Walter Torres <phpwalter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting chris <jugg@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hello,
>
> While most plugins have a relatively simple syntax, many times it is
> uncertain what plugins are available on a particular wiki, and even
> then one must go search externally from the current wiki for the syntax
> of the plugin before using it.
I agree. I have many people ask me how to use the plugin syntax they  
see on my site.
Yes, they can, and do, look for the syntax outside our Wiki structure.  
Many have the experience and where-with-all to do just that. But many  
don't.
DokuWiki has it's internal syntax page. Very nice, easy to understand.  
It would be real nice if it auto-magically added the syntax for any  
plugin that happens to be turned.
Yes, many plugins are simple and "don't require" a whole page to  
themselves, but many times people don't know a plugin is there, they  
use the "standard syntax" when a plugin syntax can be used  
instead/additional.
It would be nice, if there could be some magic, that allowed for a  
plugin sytnax to be "inserted" into the wiki syntax page where it adds  
to or replaces internal syntax. The DL plugins are first to mind.
I created a whole page of plugin syntax for my own use. It took quite  
a bit of time, but now I don't have to keep looking things up on  
external websites.
Thanks

Walter

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