Create menu without following namespace with <acmenu> syntax

Since the sidebar doesn't offer much space widthwise, a namespace with a very deep hierarchy, that is with many sub-namespaces, will be print in a very ugly way due to the indentation used by the menu.

The idea is to split the menu, at admin discretion, as in the following example.

Let's consider a wiki with the following structure:

+--sidebar.txt
+--start.txt
+--branch
|  +--sidebar.txt
|  +--start.txt
|  +--products
|  |  +--start.txt
|  +--services
|  |  +--start.txt
|  +--private
|     +--start.txt
|     +--confidential.txt
+--general
   +--start.txt
   +--stuff.txt

where, the two sidebar.txt have the following code:

in :sidebar.txt

  <acmenu>

in :branch:sidebar.txt

  [[..:start| Back to Main]]
  <acmenu>

The sidebar in the root will not build the menu for the branch namespace, since it has its own sidebar, but only for the general namespace:

⯆ Main
    ⯀ Branch
    ⯈ General
    ⯀ Main

⯆ Main
    ⯀ Branch
    ⯆ General
        ⯀ General
        ⯀ Stuff
    ⯀ Main

Note that the branch's item list mark used is a square instead of an arrow, because now Branch is treated as a page an not as a namespace.

If a visitor want to open the branch's menu, it will be opened its sidebar and the branch's start page will be loaded:

Back to Main
⯆ Branch
    ⯈ Private
    ⯈ Products
    ⯈ Services
    ⯀ Branch

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