Hypertext links in Motet

If a posting contains a URL for another web page, Motet will detect this and automatically turn it into a hypertext link when displaying the posting.

Motet recognizes a URL as anything beginning with the string http:. All you need to do to put such a link in your posting is type in the URL; there's no need for a HREF tag or any other HTML. So if, for example, you typed in

    Please visit my home page at http://www.motet.com/~user.

this would be displayed by Motet as

    Please visit my home page at http://www.motet.com/~user.

If your URL starts with "http://www.", you may omit the leading "http://" and Motet will still recognize it as an URL; so

    Please visit my home page at www.motet.com/~user.

will also work.

Most browsers support the mailto link, which when clicked generates a form to send email to the person named. For example

    Mail me at mailto:nobody@nowhere.com.

which becomes

    Mail me at mailto:nobody@nowhere.com.

    Mail me at nobody@nowhere.com.

will also work.

Other forms that Motet automatically turns into links are

• ftp:
• gopher:
• news:
• telnet:

Links to other pages within Motet

Postings may contain links to other postings, topics, forums, and users. Motet recognizes the following special forms:

• posting:post or {post}
• topic:topic or {topic.}
• forum:name or {forum.}
• user:userid or {userid}
• motet:reference

posting:post or {post}

• posting:number
• posting:topic.number
• posting:forum.topic.number

There should be no space after the colon.

The first form refers to a posting within the current topic. The second form refers a posting in the specified topic in the current forum. The third form refers to a posting in a topic in another forum. number can be a single posting number or a range of postings.

If, for example, you are posting in topic 7 of the Arts forum, then

    posting:4

would generate a link to posting 4 in that same topic;

    posting:3.17

would generate a link to Arts topic 3, posting 17; and

    posting:Sports.100.12

would generate a link to Sports topic 100, posting 12.

• postings:
• post:
• posts:

are all equivalent to posting:.

Alternatively, you can omit the posting: and simply enclose the posting reference in curly braces, e.g.

    {4}
    {3.17}
    {Sports.100.12}

topic:topic or {topic.}

• topic:number
• topic:forum.number

There should be no space after the colon.

The first form refers to a topic within the current forum, while the second refers to a topic in another forum.

If, for example, you are posting in the Arts forum, then

    topic:3

would generate a link to Arts topic 3, while

    topic:Sports.100

would generate a link to Sports topic 100.

Alternatively, you can omit the topic: and simply enclose the topic reference in curly braces, e.g.

    {3.}
    {Sports.100}

Note that in the first case, you must use a period after the topic number in order to distiguish it from a posting reference.

forum:name or {forum.}

    forum:Sports

There should be no space after the colon.

Alternatively, you can omit the forum: and simply enclose the forum name in curly braces, e.g.,

    {Sports.}

In this case, you should follow the forum name with a period in order to distiguish it from a user reference (see below).

user:userid or {userid}

    user:bryan

There should be no space after the colon.

Alternatively, you can omit the user: and simply enclose the userid in curly braces, e.g.,

    {bryan}

motet:

motet: can take one of three forms:

• motet:forum
• motet:forum.topic
• motet:forum.topic.posting

There should be no space after the colon. In the third form, posting can be a single posting number or a range of postings.

Examples:

    motet:Practice

would generate a link to the Practice forum home page;

    motet:Practice.7

would generate a link to Practice topic 7; and

    motet:Practice.7.4

would generate a link to Practice topic 7, posting 4.

Motet links in HTML references

The above all work in plain text postings, but you can use them as the HREF target in HTML, too, for example:

    Things are really heating up in the <A HREF="{Current.}">
    Current Events Forum</A>!

Links from outside Motet

You can put links in Web pages outside Motet which can lead to a specific forum, topic, or posting. (Such links are of course ordinary HTML links since they aren't being processed as Motet postings.)

Linking to a specific forum

    Go to the
    <A HREF="http://newcafe.org/motet/guest/motet.cgi?enter+Practice">
    Practice</A> forum.

would generate a link to the Practice forum:

    Go to the Practice forum.

Linking to a specific topic

    Go to
    <A HREF="http://newcafe.org/motet/guest/motet.cgi?topic+Practice+1">
    Practice.1</A>.

would generate a link to Practice topic 1:

    Go to Practice.1.

Linking to a specific posting

    Look at
    <A HREF="http://newcafe.org/motet/guest/motet.cgi?show+Practice+1+7">
    Practice.1.7</A>.

would generate

    Look at Practice.1.7.

The post specification may be a single posting or a range of postings.

Linking to a user's bio

    Read
    <A HREF="http://newcafe.org/motet/guest/motet.cgi?bio?bryan">
    bryan's bio</A>.

would generate a link to bryan's bio.

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