web commit by http://adam.shand.net/: sidebar headers showing up in toc ... bug?

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / write.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 9d85d4a9f04d602ee1a61994ca54468dd06d2999..870b3c451e24faea3a403a3b08c8e9ae8bda80f2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ adding or removing files from it.
        hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
 
 Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can
-make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters `page` and
-`content` and should return the filtered content.
+make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters "page",
+"destpage", and "content". It should return the filtered content.
 
 ### preprocess
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ preprocess hook. The "template" parameter is a [[cpan HTML::Template]]
 object that is the template that will be used to generate the page. The
 function can manipulate that template object.
 
-The most common thing to do is probably to call $template->param() to add
+The most common thing to do is probably to call `$template->param()` to add
 a new custom parameter to the template.
 
 ### sanitize
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ source files that were rendered.
 
 Use this to hook into ikiwiki's cgi script. Each registered cgi hook is
 called in turn, and passed a CGI object. The hook should examine the
-parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page and
+parameters, and if it will handle this CGI request, output a page (including the http headers) and
 terminate the program.
 
 ### auth
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ ikiwiki program.
 Hook into ikiwiki's processing. See the discussion of hooks above.
 
 Note that in addition to the named parameters described above, a parameter
-named no_override is supported, If it's set to a true value, then this hook
+named `no_override` is supported, If it's set to a true value, then this hook
 will not override any existing hook with the same id. This is useful if
 the id can be controled by the user.
 
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ appear on the wiki page, rather than calling error().
 
 Creates and returns a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter
 is the name of the file in the template directory. The optional remaining
-parameters are passed to HTML::Template->new.
+parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
 
 #### `htmlpage($)`
 
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ A failure to write the file will result in it dying with an error.
 
 If the destination directory doesn't exist, it will first be created.
 
-### `will_render($$)`
+#### `will_render($$)`
 
 Given a page name and a destination file name (not including the base
 destination directory), register that the page will result in that file
@@ -422,7 +422,9 @@ This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised.
 
 #### `urlto($$)`
 
-Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the second.
+Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the
+second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other
+destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 
 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
@@ -435,9 +437,9 @@ ikiwiki's support for revision control systems also uses pluggable perl
 modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
 `IkiWiki::RCS::svn`. 
 
-Each RCS plugin must support all the IkiWiki::rcs\_* functions.
+Each RCS plugin must support all the `IkiWiki::rcs_*` functions.
 See IkiWiki::RCS::Stub for the full list of functions. It's ok if
-rcs\_getctime does nothing except for throwing an error.
+`rcs_getctime` does nothing except for throwing an error.
 
 See [[about_RCS_backends]] for some more info.