NewFeatures: Recent Entries For range/36-42

Default directory views, mentioned before in DefaultDirViews, are now inherited from parent directories if the child specifies no particular desire about the whole thing.

This is convenient for setting an entire hierarchy to a BlogView (qv).

DWiki has a new formatting feature. If you write just '* * *' on a line by themselves, they center and become a separator. Like, well, this:

* * *

You can't indent them, because I decided that would run too much risk of confusing things with pre-formatted text blocks.

Why? I just decided I liked that style of chunk separator. (Maybe if I could get a <hr> variant that didn't stretch the entire width...)

Note: feature subject to me changing my mind.

Symbolic links inside the DWiki page area now cause redirections if their value would be a valid redirection in a REDIRECT line.

For example: FrobTig, which is a symlink in /Aliases with the value '../People'.

We could have tried using os.path.realpath() on the symlink and taking the result relative to the store root, but I think that that has more subtle explosive breakages.

Symbolic links that don't resolve to a real DWiki page this way are interpreted normally, so you can still have symlinks that point to files outside the DWiki pagestore root.

DWiki now supports 'virtual directories': directories that don't really exist but instead serve to limit what's shown for a real directory. For example, you can limit what's shown for a real directory to only the most recent 5 things, or to only things written on 2005/05/29.

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DWiki's tables can now have rows that span multiple lines, using indentation to continue them on subsequent lines just like with lists. The appearance is straightforward; just write:

| start your table | another cell that
  is continued on another line | the end cell |
| cell one | cell two | cell three |

A row is closed by having a ' |' at the end of a line, or just by starting a new row.

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DWiki now supports definition lists (<dl>, <dt>, <dd> in HTML). I started with what I think was Wikipedia's syntax but decided it was ugly in plain text so came up with my own that I like better.

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