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    • How do I reference pages whose name include parentheses?

    Posted by mheller
    I have Wiki pages with names like "
    (Exponent Operator)"

    How can I construct a Wiki link to such a page? The presence of the parentheses seems to screw up the Wiki link parser, so placing "
    (Exponent Operator)" on another page does not work.


    I can find such pages in searches and in the page list.

    The only solution I have been able to think of is to use HTML links, for example

    href="?page=
    +(Exponent+Operator)"


    Suggestions?

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    Posted by mheller

    Yuck. The wiki markup corrupted the query above. Here it is again inside np tags (which screw up the spacing):
    I have Wiki pages with names like this: ^ (Exponent Operator) Referencing this with ((^ (Exponent Operator))) does not work. I can find such pages in searches and in the page list. The only solution I have been able to think of is to use HTML links, for example href="?page=^+(Exponent+Operator)" Suggestions?


    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    Using the external link syntax instead of the double parentheses appears to work - [(Exponent Operator)] produces (Exponent Operator). Of course if you have the option activated to display the external link icon, that could be confusing, so if you use this method, probably that icon should be turned off.

    -- Gary

    Posted by mheller
    Thanks! 😀
    Posted by mheller

    Actually, that doesn't work. It produces a link, but doesn't conform to the wiki conventions for the link name as a query with plus signs between the words.

    Thanks for the suggestion, though. I think I'll just rename the pages without the parentheses and use friendly description displays for the links.

    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    OK. Actually my first thought was to suggest not using parentheses in page names. Any time reserved or other special characters are used in page names, which are also part of the url and therefore complicate things, it's likely that not every detail will turn out as desired. Incidentally, I sometimes get the html encoding for a space rather than a plus sign in pages that contain a space, even when it doesn't contain special characters; I haven't noticed a pattern that causes this.

    -- Gary