Random question: does anyone use underscores in their page filenames on purpose for that to show up ...

# kobweb

[David Herman]

Random question: does anyone use underscores in their page filenames on purpose for that to show up in the final route?

[David Herman]

For example: About_Us.kt --> /about_us ?

[David Herman]

The reason I'm asking is because I'm thinking about converting underscores to hyphens (since by default the Kobweb algorithm's intention was to find words in your file name and separate them by hyphens, since hyphens are the recommended SEO separator)

[David Herman]

In other words, moving forward I'm thinking About_Us.kt --> /about-us

[David Herman]

Definitely looking for feedback / real use-cases first, though!

[Ryan Scott]

No. But I use them in my markdown files.

[David Herman]

Interesting @Ryan Scott. And you want to keep the underscores in the final route in that case? Or would hyphens be OK?

[Ryan Scott]

It doesn't really matter. I would prefer to not have to go back and fix the relative links. But it's not a big deal to me.

[Ryan Scott]

Others who have more blog posts and links may feel differently

[David Herman]

Do you link to them directly? You can link to the markdown files (directly to the .md path) from other markdown files

[David Herman]

If you use the build script to generate the links (markdown.process), that should also migrate automatically

[Ryan Scott]

Sure. Is there a feature to make that easy, or should I just do a string replacement?

[David Herman]

Make what easy exactly? Updating links?

[Ryan Scott]

I think we're talking past eachother here a bit.

[Ryan Scott]

I'm linking between pages relatively. I'll give a contrived example. If I want to link from article_a.md to article_b.md, my present process is to do this:

[See article B](article_b)

[Ryan Scott]

It sounds like you're saying that there is an easier way to do this via the markdown.process block in the build.gradle file.

[Ryan Scott]

But it's not clear to me what that is.

[David Herman]

[See article B](article_b.md)

should work

[David Herman]

markdown.process { ... } is useful for creating listing pages

[David Herman]

I use it here: https://github.com/bitspittle/bitspittle.dev/blob/bb9e82a5bb9aa8ab09819f0d2ffac0a9ce8949ca/site/build.gradle.kts#L87

to generate https://bitspittle.dev/blog/

[Ryan Scott]

Ah. Okay. I already do something very similar to this. This is not the kind of link I'm talking about. Rather, it's a link within the text of the markdown file itself rather than a link within the generated page.

[David Herman]

Right. In that case, my example above ([see article B](artible_b.md)) is what to use then linking within one markdown file to another (link to the file path directly and Kobweb will replace it with the right route)