Links to other pages on the Taizé website
Links to other pages in the website are, for the most part, already provided by menu system; others can be added by using the “See also” section in the right-hand column.
It is of course also possible to place links to other articles within your text. However, please avoid doing this except when it is really necessary.
The reason for to avoid manual links within articles is simple: if the article which is pointed to is deleted or rewritten (so that its number changes) in the future, the link will remain in the first article — and will point nowhere. The person who clicks it will get an error.
The menu links on the other hand are automatic: when an article is moved or taken off-line, the menu entry for that page will update itself.
A link to another article is easy. Just type
[another interesting article->art376]
where 376 is the number of the article pointed to. (When placing a link in an English article to a shared article, the same simple syntax will also work.)
“another interesting article” is the clickable text which will appear on the webpage.
Note: If you write just [->art376], without stipulating the clickable text before the arrow, then the text which will appear is the title of the article in question.
You can also create links to other Spip objects, attached files, for example: [Article in {The Tablet} 28 January 2012->doc7103] will produce:
Article in The Tablet 28 January 2012
External links
It is easy to place a hyperlink to another website in an article. It is done with the same syntax used to insert an email address: [xxx->yyy]
will attach the link (typed after the “arrow”) to the words before the “arrow”:
See the most interesting page about Taizé on the whole internet.
Named anchors
Name anchors can be useful for referring to a particular part of articles which are long or which contain different sections.
For example, to a young person who has asked how much it costs to stay at Taizé, it is possible to send a link
like this: http://www.taize.fr/en_article7.html#cost
To place a named anchor in an article, use this syntax: [cost<-]
To make a link to that place on the page from within the same article, use: [text of the link->#cost]
To make a link to that place on the page from another article, use: [text of the link->artNNNN#cost] — where NNNN is the number of the article.
Begin the name of the anchor with "#", otherwise use only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore characters "_" in the name of the anchor.