reel
The Reel is Arachne’s flat-file database for storing image info.
Originally, to add images in the wiki, they must be declared like this in tomes:
~img image.png | alt text | captionThe issue came when I decided to rename a bunch of images. I had to go through each tome to find instances of image runes. Additionally, in the event an image is used in a few places throughout the site, updating the alt text would also be duplicated work. So I decided to have a designated place to house all of that.
usage
The Reel file is just a text file where each line is an entry pointing to an image file as well as containing its respective alt and caption text:
image
.alt: alt text
.cap: caption
.hov: hovertext (xkcd-style)To call it in a tome, I now simply have to do this:
~img imageIf I’m reusing an image in another page and I need a different caption:
~img image | caption override