webgen users - Apr 2009 - General Webgen Suggestion/Question

Hi,

it would be nice if webgen could implement Umlauts (or even Spaces) in 
path- or filenames.

How could this problem be solved in webgen:

|-DirA
|  |-index.page  in_menu: false
|  |-file1.page  in_menu: true
|  |-file2.page  in_menu: true
|
|-DirB
    |-index.page  in_menu: XXX

The following menu should be created:

DirA
   File1
   File2
DirB

But it seems this is not possible. Dependent on the value of
''XXX''
above, the following two situations can occur:

1. DirB is not displayed at all
2. DirB is displayed together with ''Index'' in its submenu

This is in most real-world sites not a desired outcome. Sometimes there 
are simply no submenu items, but nevertheless there should just be the 
contents of index.page displayed -- only without menu entry.

Would it be possible to make index.page a special filename that won''t
be
displayed in the menu, even when ''in_menu: true'' is selected?

Thanks,
Michael

> it would be nice if webgen could implement Umlauts (or even Spaces)
> in path- or filenames.
I have put it on my TODO list. Both (spaces, umlauts) seem not to work
mainly because of the use of the uri library which doesn''t allow
spaces or non US-ASCII characters in URLs.
 
> How could this problem be solved in webgen:
> 
> |-DirA
> |  |-index.page  in_menu: false
> |  |-file1.page  in_menu: true
> |  |-file2.page  in_menu: true
> |
> |-DirB
>     |-index.page  in_menu: XXX
> 
> The following menu should be created:
> 
> DirA
>    File1
>    File2
> DirB
Use a metainfo file that sets `in_menu: true` on the DirB directory.
And use `in_menu: false` on the DirB/index.page. Then the directory is
in the menu but not the index.page beneath it.

-- Thomas

Hi Michael,
> it would be nice if webgen could implement Umlauts (or even Spaces)
> in path- or filenames.
the next release will support umlauts and spaces in source path names
and output path names.

Just wanted to let you know!

Best regards,
  Thomas