webgen users - Jan 2008 - Menu - labels

Webgen uses file paths to generate multilevel menues, bread crumbs etc. And 
limits the character range in paths to a-zA-Z. As the directory names are 
used verbatim as menu labels this is fairly limitting for non-english pages. 
Is there a way to map directory names to configurable UTF8 strings for menu 
labels? 

oao

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:08:12 +0100
Odd Arild Olsen <oao at oao.no> wrote:
> Webgen uses file paths to generate multilevel menues, bread crumbs
> etc. And limits the character range in paths to a-zA-Z. As the
> directory names are used verbatim as menu labels this is fairly
> limitting for non-english pages. Is there a way to map directory
> names to configurable UTF8 strings for menu labels? 
You can set arbitrary titles for directories in two ways:

* set the meta information `directoryName` in the index files (one
index file for each language) of the directory

* set the meta information `title` directly on the directory using the
meta information backing file (`metainfo.yaml`, needs to be in the
website directory). However, you can''t set a localized title this way.

For example:

    metainfo.yaml
    src/
    src/index.en.page
    src/index.de.page
    src/dir
    src/dir/index.de.page
    src/dir/index.en.page

src/index.en.page:

    ---
    directoryName: Website Root
    ---

src/index.de.page:

    ---
    directoryName: Website Wurzel
    ---

metainfo.yaml:

    dir/:
      title: Unlocalized Title

Hope that helps!

-- Thomas

I tried the directoryName way, works fine. I started with webgen yesterday. 
Thank you, now I understand the purpose of directoryName too.
regards
oao 


On Friday 04 January 2008, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:08:12 +0100
>
> Odd Arild Olsen <oao at oao.no> wrote:
> > Webgen uses file paths to generate multilevel menues, bread crumbs
> > etc. And limits the character range in paths to a-zA-Z. As the
> > directory names are used verbatim as menu labels this is fairly
> > limitting for non-english pages. Is there a way to map directory
> > names to configurable UTF8 strings for menu labels?
>
> You can set arbitrary titles for directories in two ways:
>
> * set the meta information `directoryName` in the index files (one
> index file for each language) of the directory
>
> * set the meta information `title` directly on the directory using the
> meta information backing file (`metainfo.yaml`, needs to be in the
> website directory). However, you can''t set a localized title this
way.
>
> For example:
>
>     metainfo.yaml
>     src/
>     src/index.en.page
>     src/index.de.page
>     src/dir
>     src/dir/index.de.page
>     src/dir/index.en.page
>
> src/index.en.page:
>
>     ---
>     directoryName: Website Root
>     ---
>
> src/index.de.page:
>
>     ---
>     directoryName: Website Wurzel
>     ---
>
> metainfo.yaml:
>
>     dir/:
>       title: Unlocalized Title
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> -- Thomas
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