Special Character Prefix Protocol

last modified: October 10, 2014

This is a WoolenLanguage usage pattern that utilizes abbreviated or invented series of characters as RepresentationTokens to be used within such programs as NysLte and NysWiki and some of TheOtherThings DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20141010


One example is the use of yt: as a prefix for videos viewable within the NysLte Artifactories Browser

Using yt in a pages edit - OneClick on the term yt:[v=video_id] as in:

Will access the video specified in the short-hand term giving:


An additonal benefit included within the artifactory browser is the youtube supplied right-pane of subject related videos including the 1 and 3/4 hour video by Christopher Alexander at Berkeley

In the browser artifactory, clicks work, and in this case a one-click on the link will bring up that video (and a new right-pane, with other related videos


The benefit of this approach is that you are operating within a local PersonalInformationManager in the ArtifactoryTab. You are controlling the navigation in an Artifactory, clicks within the artifactory browser may display results only within the artifactory tab.


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