how can I create a link to an image which is part of the wiki, without having it inserted in my page? I tought this: \[[look at this|img/lolcat.png]] would work, but it doesn't. Any hints? --[[jerojasro]] > Well, currently the syntax above will display the image > inline with the specified link text used as an alt attribute. Although > that does not seem to be documented anywhere. > > A few places that use that (found with `git grep '\[\[' | egrep 'png|gif|jpeg|jpg' |grep \|`): > > * [[logo]] uses it to provide useful alt texts for the logos. (This > could easily be changed to use [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] though.) > * The `change.tmpl` template uses it to display > the [[diff|wikiicons/diff.png]] with a very useful "diff" alt text. > Using [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] here would mean that the > [[plugins/recentchanges]] plugin would depend upon the img > plugin. > > I do like your suggestion, it makes more sense than the current behavior. > I'm not sure the transition pain to get from here to there is worth it, > though. > > More broadly, if I were writing ikiwiki now, I might choose to leave out the > auto-inlining of images altogether. In practice, it has added a certian level > of complexity to ikiwiki, with numerous plugins needing to specify > `noimageinline` to avoid accidentially inlining an image. And there has not > been a lot of payoff from having the auto-inlining feature implicitly > available most places. And the img directive allows much needed control over > display, so it would be better for users to not have to worry about its > lesser cousin. But the transition from here to *there* would be another order > of pain. > > Anyway, the cheap and simple answer to your question is to use html > or markdown instead of a [[ikiwiki/wikilink]]. Ie, > `[look at this](img/lolcat.jpg)`. --[[Joey]] > > thanks a lot, that's a quite straightforward solution. I actually wrote a > > broken plugin to do that, and now I can ditch it --[[jerojasro]] >>> The plugin approach is not a bad idea if you want either the ability >>> to: >>> >>> * Have things that are wikilink-aware (like [[plugins/brokenlinks]] >>> treat your link to the image as a wikilink. >>> * Use standard wikilink path stuff (and not have to worry about >>> a relative html link breaking if the page it's on is inlined, for >>> example). >>> >>> I can help you bang that plugin into shape if need be. --[[Joey]] >>>> both my plugin and your suggestion yield broken html links when inlining the page (although probably that's what is expected from your suggestion (`[]()`)) >>>> >>>> I thought using the `bestlink` function would take care of that, but alas, it doesn't. >>>> Get the "plugin" [here](http://devnull.li/~jerojasro/files/linktoimgonly.pm), see the broken >>>> links generated [here](http://devnull.li/~jerojasro/blog/posts/job_offers/) and the source >>>> file for that page [here](http://git.devnull.li/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=blog-jerojasro.git;a=blob;f=posts/job_offers.mdwn;hb=HEAD) --[[jerojasro]] >>>>> Use this --[[Joey]] return htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $params{"img"}, linktext => $params{text}, noimageinline => 1);