Re: [tw] Re: Name formatting using caption field

2016-01-11 Thread David Allen
I was wondering about the order in which those kinds of things are run. For example, are widgets evaluated before or after macro calls? I'm trying to figure this out so I know what I can use where and in what order TiddlyWiki will evaluate them.

Re: [tw] Re: Name formatting using caption field

2016-01-11 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi David, > Out of curiosity, in what order are macros, text references, widgets, etc > used? > How do you mean "used"? Used where? One thing's for sure, you *cannot* have a widget be an attribute to a widget. So, you can have macros be an attribute to a widget, but you *cannot* have a

Re: [tw] Re: Name formatting using caption field

2016-01-11 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi David, I was wondering about the order in which those kinds of things are run. > For example, are widgets evaluated before or after macro calls? I'm trying > to figure this out so I know what I can use where and in what order > TiddlyWiki will evaluate them. > It all depends on how your

Re: [tw] Re: Name formatting using caption field

2016-01-10 Thread David Allen
The white space part of the setvars works fine. Thanks for that tip, should make it easier to add to later. Out of curiosity, in what order are macros, text references, widgets, etc used? I ask because I'm extremely close to getting a tiddler that can modify the large number of already-made

[tw] Re: Name formatting using caption field

2016-01-10 Thread Tobias Beer
Hi David, I'm a quite amazed to find you using *setvars* at that level of complexity. *bows down* As for long expressions like yours, I'd possibly use plenty line-breaks and white-space for readability, e.g.: \define name_output(species,first,second,third) <$setvars twothreename="""