Question

Hello

We are storing authors and publications in our wiki. We'd like to be able to refer to them using the standard notation of Lastname + YEAR of publication. So the string would look like Lastname1967.

We can force these links using double-brackets, but twiki wont automaticallly link to those topics - we always have to force the link.

Is there a way to get twiki to treat Johnson1943 (for example) as an ordinary wikiword??

thanks!

Environment

-- DaveHecker - 21 Sep 2004

Answer

This is not a direct answer to your question but the BibliographyPlugin might be of interest to you, probably the EmbedBibPlugin as well.

-- ChristianKohl - 21 Sep 2004

Other ideas:

• Add a simple rule to your DefaultPlugin's outsidePREHandler that changes Lastname1967 into [[Lastname1967]]: (untested code)
  $_[0] =~ s/([\s\(])([A-Z][A-Za-z]*[0-9]{4})/$1[[$2]]/go;

• Define InterwikiPlugin rules to resolve Lastname:1967 to topic Lastname1967. This means, that you have to add all author's last names which might not be practical

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Sep 2004