[tw] Re: Can I have a word counter for the words in the entire TW?

2017-05-09 Thread PMario
Hi, I did a uick search and found 2 topics and 2 TWs, that may be of interest. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/word$20count|sort:date/tiddlywiki/krhBHAI6-vM/Nrn_KMRYAgAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/tiddlywiki/M0tXH37TXEU/PEzZFizfAgAJ https://tid.li/tw5/plugins.ht

Re: [tw] Re: A TiddlyWiki Math(s) TextBook

2017-05-09 Thread Daniel Cunningham
You're doing some great work over there, Steven! I've an action item or three on my list to review some of the impressive adaptations you & your students have done. Impressive, to say the least! Best regards, -- Daniel On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Steven Schneider wrote: > Richard, this i

[tw] Re: Can I have a word counter for the words in the entire TW?

2017-05-09 Thread Birthe C
Did you se this https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/R9W4Jk1w77U/ZZgwSEtcHOoJ. Den onsdag den 10. maj 2017 kl. 02.31.50 UTC+2 skrev j3d1H: > > > Erm.. I can't find any that have nothing to do with tags. To be more > specific, it can't include any tag filtering. I need to have every tidd

[tw] Re: [TW5] Render/Embed Rich Content Summeries for External Links

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
I think someone would have to write a plugin to make that possible. Something very close to that can happen with the tiddlyclip plugin using the screenshot feature. If you narrow your screen to just the parts that you want, only that bit shows up in the resulting screenshot. The URL of the site

[tw] Re: Can I have a word counter for the words in the entire TW?

2017-05-09 Thread j3d1H
Erm.. I can't find any that have nothing to do with tags. To be more specific, it can't include any tag filtering. I need to have every tiddler, no matter what, word counted. I'm terribly sorry if I'm just wasting everyone's time by asking this. -- You received this message because you are sub

[tw] [TW5] Render/Embed Rich Content Summeries for External Links

2017-05-09 Thread TJ Walker
I'd like to hear thoughts from folks on how the following might or might not be a good feature of TW. Thanks. I'm thinking of how sharing a Spotify/SoundCloud link in Slack results in an embed player right there and how pasting a link to just about any page into Google Keep results in a littl

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread Steven Schneider
Got a chance to do a bit more on the epub > html > tiddlywiki workflow. See http://american-government-imported-text.tiddlyspot.com/ which imports all tiddlers matching filter from http://american-government-in-the-information-age.tiddlyspot.com/, which used text-slicer to parse the html of

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyMap, politicial map, democracy

2017-05-09 Thread Steven Schneider
Alex, very cool, I like it. Some of my students are working with twitter-bots in TW; I'll try to dig it up & share. //steve. On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 2:43:29 PM UTC-4, AlexHough wrote: > > Hello, > > It occurred to me that TW could get a boost though engagement with news > stories emerging via

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyMap, politicial map, democracy

2017-05-09 Thread Alex Hough
Hello, It occurred to me that TW could get a boost though engagement with news stories emerging via twitter. The new trend-- if we can call it that-- of making threads by replying to yourself comes quite close to a set of tiddlers. Dreaming for a second-- what if a TW were used in a newspaper stor

Re: [tw] Re: On using a CDN

2017-05-09 Thread Arlen Beiler
Interesting thoughts, all of you. My first thought is, there goes the privacy of using TiddlyWiki. Google > isn't free. You pay by giving up your privacy. Granted, I don't have > anything on a publicly accessible tiddlywiki site that is all that private > but I do use it at home and it is nobody's

[tw] Re: On using a CDN

2017-05-09 Thread Mat
Arlen - an option to have it as a single file OR via CND ,WOULD BE FANTASTIC! If the CDN is on some Google service, Github, in the coporate local server, in a Beaker Browser or wherever is a whole other matter. Such a CDN could potetially also host plugins... even "all of them"... and any cont

[tw] Re: TiddlyMap, politicial map, democracy

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Alex I thought it is well worth showing. Josiah AlexHough wrote: > > I've been following a news story on Twitter [1] and have made a quick TW > [2] > > The larger context [3] is complex, i think TW could help people navigate > the situtation > ... > > [1] https://twitter.com/caroleca

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
There is a fairly good overview of Interactivity in EPUB 3 here: http://epubzone.org/news/epub-3-and-interactivity I think the point is that its not gonna universally embrace freed JS. That does not stop US developing a different approach that approximates them AND adds other functions. A sort

[tw] Re: On using a CDN

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
I noticed this when I was testing twederation. I don't know that the server I use compresses data and even if it did I'm sure the host provider is counting final file size, not compression stream. I think if it could be configured so the user gets to choose whether TW uses an external library,

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Jeremy's Slicer is excellent for simple cases. It requires certain criteria to be met to function well. One thing about PRE-PROCESSORS is how much of the heavy lifting they do or not. Its all very well to chunk some vast document into Tiddler units. But what also matters is what they are capab

[tw] Re: On using a CDN

2017-05-09 Thread PMario
Just as an info. tiddlywiki.com ... over the wire 1.34 MByte ... file size 4 MByte empty.html ... 395 KB ... 1.86 MB according to FireFox dev-tools. -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

[tw] Re: On using a CDN

2017-05-09 Thread Lost Admin
My first thought is, there goes the privacy of using TiddlyWiki. Google isn't free. You pay by giving up your privacy. Granted, I don't have anything on a publicly accessible tiddlywiki site that is all that private but I do use it at home and it is nobody's business but mine what I keep there

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
I didn't realize that Jeremy's slicer could handle HTML directly. That's a real time saver. I see that some formatting is lost. In particular, the tag used in the preamble of chapter 1. This might mean that other formatting (like bold) might also be lost in some places. It appears to me that

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Mark & Steve I have two comments ... 1 - CHUNKING is also about the semantics of the original text. In novels the working optimal seems to be the paragraph. Though in some cases (Like *Finnegan's Wake*) it might be the sentence. For poetry its the line. I think its a mistake to allow pra

[tw] TiddlyMap, politicial map, democracy

2017-05-09 Thread Alex Hough
Dear All, I've been following a news story on Twitter [1] and have made a quick TW [2] The larger context [3] is complex, i think TW could help people navigate the situtation best wishes Alex [1] https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/861346191115735040 [2] https://alexhough.github.io/Camb

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
Wow - amazing. While I was typing up some approaches, you already did it! On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 8:20:43 AM UTC-7, Steven Schneider wrote: > > OK, then, here is a workflow to go from epub -> html -> tiddlywiki. > > (1) I download the epub version of > http://open.lib.umn.edu/americangovernmen

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread Lost Admin
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:34:18 AM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote: > > I've never seen an epub with javascript ability. I know PDFs can have some > ability, but I don't think I've ever seen an example of one. The problem is > that javascript could be used in theory to hack a system, so adoption has

[tw] On using a CDN

2017-05-09 Thread Arlen Beiler
Yes, yes, I know. TiddlyWiki is supposed to be a single file architecture. And it is. And it will be when I am done with this too. So hear me out. As I am working on an upgrade to the current TiddlyWiki Cloud Dropbox saver. I keep thinking that there has to be a better way than uploading 1.5 MB ev

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
There are multiple approaches, depending on how you want things chunked. Chunking matters because your students will probably be commenting at whatever "chunk" level you provide. So if you want paragraph-by-paragraph chunking, then you're going to need to chunk things into single-paragraph leve

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread Steven Schneider
OK, then, here is a workflow to go from epub -> html -> tiddlywiki. (1) I download the epub version of http://open.lib.umn.edu/americangovernment/ (2) Use pandoc to convert to html (http://pandoc.org/) pandoc -f epub -t html American-Government-and-Politics-in-the-Information- Age-1479837299._3.

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Mark Mark S. wrote: > > ... your paragraphs are really small, > Absolutely right. Novels that have lots of dialogue like ... "Did you eat the sandwich?", she said "Are you questioning my motives?", he replied She responded, "No, just whether you liked cheese with pickle." ... etc End u

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Steve Its also an issue using Google Groups on web. As a web user of it I'm not really thinking its also an email list. Looking at it I see there is a CC field I should uncheck. BUT the problem is, you as the author maybe want copies to go to those people, so how would I know when to UNch

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread Steven Schneider
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:02:13 AM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote: > > I think he's saying that he wants to convert existing texts into TW. > Yes - that is exactly what I am saying. Here is an example: http://open.lib.umn.edu/americangovernment/ How would I begin to import this into TW? //steve.

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
I've never seen an epub with javascript ability. I know PDFs can have some ability, but I don't think I've ever seen an example of one. The problem is that javascript could be used in theory to hack a system, so adoption has been slow. Each tiddler adds 100 to 200 bytes of overhead, depending o

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread Steven Schneider
Hi folks - I made a major faux pas in the group by cc'ing this message to others -- I meant to forward it to them. If you could, please take care not to "reply all" so we don't flood their mailbox. My apologies to all. //steve. On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:16:33 AM UTC-4, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Mark S. I agree that "chunking" is the central issue on performance. It is my experience in testing that the more fine grained the chunking the slower the performance. And it gets worse the larger the file. An interesting issue is, once the text is completed, is whether it would be possi

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Lost Admin I agree with you that beyond a certain scale native TW may not work for ePubs. In tests I did full scale novels (where the unit was 1 tid = 1 paragraph of novel of over 4,000 paras) became unwieldy. HOWEVER, it may be possible to optimize further. And TW has potential for author

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
I think he's saying that he wants to convert existing texts into TW. I've gone through this exercise with some classical texts (e.g. a couple plays at shakespeare.tiddlyspot.com, bibles). Classical text doesn't have special formatting to worry about. Well structured data can be imported fairly

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread Lost Admin
On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 8:00:17 PM UTC-4, Steven Schneider wrote: > > ... > > # Rendering open texts published as ePub (or mobi or wxr or odt: this is > one example ) in TW so that > students can submit assignments as comments on the text. > ... >

[tw] Re: [TW5] Concatenate two or more fields for title of new tiddler?

2017-05-09 Thread Mat
As I understand it, one can say It "evaluates" the text and saves the result. ("Text" here refers to the input to the WikifyWidget, not to the tiddlers text field) My typical scenaro is trying to do something with e.g the SetWidget only to literally (and annoyingly) get, say, {{!!title}} when I

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki in Education

2017-05-09 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Ciao Steve Very interested in this. I have long career as an ethnographer (backround: LSE, MPhil, anthropologist) and archivist (some on-line archives). I have a large live project right now I am working on with other people. I hope to use TW for it. It is all about Charles Dickens' *Great Ex

Re: [tw] [TW5] New SimpleCheckList Plugin with Drag and Drop

2017-05-09 Thread FrD
Hi Pit, Thanks for your kind words. Happy it's helpful. FrD Le lundi 8 mai 2017 19:25:34 UTC+2, Pit.W. a écrit : > > Hi FrD, > > +1 > > a hot plugin. Easy to use, massive impact. > > I am using the predecessor in all my TWs. This is a big progress. > > Thanks for this. > > > Pit > > Am 2017-05-

[tw] Re: This is how you can (and could) find plugins

2017-05-09 Thread HC Haase
I agree with Danielo Rodríguez and Mark S. that some tab or extra plugin library in the regular plugin modal, is the best way to make a plugin findable (for now). A couple of people have made there own plugin libraries (e.g. Tobias). Could this be a solution: 1. Have a TW on github where peop

[tw] Re: [TW5] Concatenate two or more fields for title of new tiddler?

2017-05-09 Thread Gordan Nia
Thanks for another solution! Frankly, I've never used WikifyWidget and I'm not quite sure about its use, although I've read the WikifyWidget introduction. As far as I understand, it seems to me that WikifyWidget is used to save some textual content in the variable, or? -- You received this me