[TW5] Behaviour of the list-links macro with camelcase caption field value

[FrD]

Hi,

When using the list-links macro, I found a strange behaviour in some cases.

Say you put this in TiddlerA :

<<list-links filter:"[tag[foo]]">>

And you have some tiddlers tagged "foo".
For one of them, say "test3" you define a caption field with value "TestThree".

The list-links macro lists this tiddler under the name : TestThree but doesn't link to "test3" but to the non-existent tiddler "TestThree".

If you put ~TestThree in the caption field, it works as expected.


FrD

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi FrD

As you know, the caption field, if present, is wikified by the list-links macro in preference to displaying the unwikified “title” field. The title TestThree is CamelCase, and so it is automatically made into a link to that tiddler, embedded within the expected link.

So, there may be two unexpected things going on: that the caption field is wikified, and that links can be nested.

Best wishes

Jeremy.

FrD

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[FrD]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for your quick answer.
It makes sense.

But it's somewhat disconcerting to have a link which is displayed among the others and doesn't work.
I'll take care to use non camelcase captions or to escape them with ~.

FrD

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Jeremy / FrD,

So, there may be two unexpected things going on: that the caption field is wikified, and that links can be nested.

I find this to be problematic as well, but I understand how the caption needs transcludability for translation purposes. 

But it's somewhat disconcerting to have a link which is displayed among the others and doesn't work.
I'll take care to use non camelcase captions or to escape them with ~.

There are several ways to remedy the problem, assuming that the caption field is always transcluded:

1. escape a simple caption using caption: ~SomeCaption
2. use some wikitext markup to just output text, e.g. caption: <$text text={{SomeDictionary##some-index}}/>
• especially when retrieving the caption from elsewhere
• so you would't know if it contained any camelcased content

Best wishes,

Tobias.