Question

I would like to be able to define TWiki preferences with parameters (macros). For example, defining:

%HEAD{chapter 1}%

to render as:

<B><I>chapter 1</I></B>

Where chapter 1 can be any text

As far as I can tell there is no 'easy' way to accomplish this in TWiki. Is this correct?

If so, I will have to implement my own macros in twiki's sourcecode. This shouldn't be too much of a problem; I am familier with Perl. Can anybody give some pointers as to where in the source it is best to implement this. Which file, and which function?

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 05 Jun 2007

Answer

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Preferences do not support parameters at this time. However, you can use parameterized include. This is not well documented, but see VarINCLUDE and IncludedTopicUsedAsMacro.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Jun 2007

See sample at SnazzyRoundedCornersContrib.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Jun 2007

Thank you for your answer. After looking at how to write plugins, and thinking about it a little I decided to write a plugin which contains some shortcuts.

-- TWikiGuest - 08 Jun 2007