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Re: Embedding FTX in messages
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:28:30 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Dave Johann wrote:
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This might seem like a silly question, but I don’t think I’ve seen it covered
before. How do I embed an ftx page in a posted message? I’ve got the page set
up and ready to go, but I can’t find any instructions on how to do this.
Currently, it appears that only images and links can be imbedded, not full
pages. Am I missing something?
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It’s exactly the same as including images, with the double angle brackets,
however the page must reside on Lugnet, see the page from the
FTX guide included below. This was included using
<</publish/ftx/guide/transclusion>>
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Page transclusion: Including other pages
The FTX document format has a very special and almost magical content-inclusion
feature: not only can you include images and news articles in the pages you
create, but you can also include whole other pages in your pages!
In fact, doing this is extremely simple: Where you would normally link to
a page using single angle brackets <>:
instead use double angle brackets <<>>:
It’s a little bit like embedding an image, except that the page you embed
must be:
- Local to www.lugnet.com, and
- Written as an FTX document
Here is how the two lines above compare. First the regular link:
example
and now the included page:
This is a very short example page. Its only purpose is to be transcluded
by another page. OK, this is the end of the page. Bye!
All right, now you’re back to the regular page. The small paragraph above
is not truly part of the page you’re viewing, but actually a copy of a
different page (click the link that says “example” or the little square box
on the right to view that page all by itself).
Now here are a couple “real” examples, each pulling many separate pages
together into one big page:
“Transclusion?”
Transclusion is a word coined by Project Xanadu®
visionary Ted Nelson, who also coined the
word Hypertext in 1963. Transclusion (also called transquoting) of
materials is a form of transpublishing in which materials from one or more
original sources are used or assembled at another location to make a new
source.
Transclusion of text (or of a page) is different from inclusion of text (or
of a page). Inclusion implies actually including a copy of the source material,
while transclusion implies storing only a reference to it and assembling a copy
of it only when it needs to be viewed.
Thus, when you transclude FTX pages, any changes made to the page referenced
will automatically reflect in the page referencing it as well. (If you need
to “lock in” to a particular historical revision of some FTX page, there
is actually a way to do that, but it is beyond the scope of this tutorial.)
Note: When you transclude someone else’s FTX page on LUGNET, the copyright
notice at the bottom of the webpage changes to include the author whose page
you are transcluding.
ROSCO
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| Got it! It looks like my error was including the (URL) portion of the URL. Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. <</~524/sigfile>> (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| This might seem like a silly question, but I don't think I've seen it covered before. How do I embed an ftx page in a posted message? I've got the page set up and ready to go, but I can't find any instructions on how to do this. Currently, it (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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