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Great thread, folks. And thanks for the call out to {{DesignWrite}} -- a learning community for TW that will re-launch in Spring 2017, with a pilot system ready for December. Watch this space! Thomas, your < macro is beautiful! //steve. On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 6:27:54 PM UTC-4, Mat

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Thomas Elmiger wrote: > Nesting is absolutely possible > AH! Here I was babbling and you had already done it. Looks great! <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

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Josiah wrote: I personally see immediate good use cases for it: For instance, inline > clarifications of Middle English words in an ebook version of Chaucer's "A > Canterbury Tales". > In deed, the obvious example that comes to mind. SUGGESTION: I'm not sure if it would be feasible but one

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Thomas Really excellent. Very powerful. In essence you could replicate http://www.telescopictext.com/ ? I will write you a text in the next couple of days that can be a bit of fun to apply this to. Best wishes Josiah On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 23:25:33 UTC+2, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > Ciao

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Ciao Josiah Nesting is absolutely possible using transclusion. I made a new demo/testcase here: http://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#TextStretch%20Transclusion%20Examples – hope you like it. (I transclude fields from the same tiddler plus one other tiddler in block mode.) Verbal game sounds

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Ciao Thomas, c pa, Mat & others... Great stuff. Very useful. I personally see immediate good use cases for it: For instance, inline clarifications of Middle English words in an ebook version of Chaucer's "A Canterbury Tales". I can also see other interesting apps for "verbal games".

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Thank you, c pa, for reviewing my solution and suggesting an alternative! Your version resembles my first try (TextStretch 0.7.1) in many ways. Let me point out some differences: 1) Using the $id$ supplied by the user makes this parameter mandatory for many cases. As soon as you have two or

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Here's the replacement. Seems to work \define strex(content:"TextStretch", label:"…", start:"[", end:"]", class:"", id:"default") <$set name="state" value=<> > <$reveal type="nomatch" state=<> text="visible" animate="yes"> <$button set=<>

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I copied and used your macros. Cool Your instructions are missing how to import the uuid macro so I replaced it with <> Within the macro definitions you don't need to set so many variables, Rather than using <$set name="var" value="$var$"><$macrocall $name="macroname" variable=<> /> Use

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There is a new version of TextStretch – I spent quite some time on ease of use, functionality and documentation. But still I am afraid, it is far from being finished or even perfect. A short overview of changes (taken from the new versions tiddler):

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Hi Thomas Thanks for your quick reply. I some cases the id of TextStretch is an advantage, but not in my use case, I don't mind if it also deletes search states and tab states. Pedro. On Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 6:08:47 PM UTC+1, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > Hi pedruchini > > Concerning

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Hi pedruchini Concerning solutions one and two: they do nearly the same and delete ALL state tiddlers (also search, active tabs, …). This is why I prefixed the state tiddlers of TextStretch. To delete these you can filter for $:/state/txtstr_ with solution one or two (I would prefer two

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Hi pedruchini Concerning solutions one and two: they do nearly the same and delete ALL state tiddlers (also search, active tabs, …). This is why I prefixed the state tiddlers of TextStrech. To delete these you can filter for $:/state/txtstr_ with solution one or two (I would prefer two because

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Based on Mabalele's post (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/F_laLj-y5lk), I found two solutions <$button> <$action-deletetiddler $filter="[search:title[$:/state/]]"/> clear and <$button> <$action-deletetiddler $filter="[prefix[$:/state/]]"/> clear I pasted one on these on

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> http://www.telescopictext.com/ >> > Wow. I need a plugin for Microsoft Outlook. :D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

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nota http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nota+bene On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 11:04:36 AM UTC-5, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > Thank you, Eric, for pointing this out. > > How about “strex”? > Reminds of stretch and expand, could also stand for STRing EXpander. > > (According to Google it is

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Thank you, Eric, for pointing this out. How about “strex”? Reminds of stretch and expand, could also stand for STRing EXpander. (According to Google it is also used in life science as well as mobile payment in Norway.) Suggestions welcome! Thomas -- You received this message because you

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On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 4:37:09 AM UTC-7, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > A valid point. How about tex – the Text EXpander? > Has anyone ever heard of a macro named “tex”? > Though there may not currently be a macro named "tex", it seems to me that keyword should not be used, since "TeX" is

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Hej Birthe A valid point. How about tex – the Text EXpander? Has anyone ever heard of a macro named “tex”? Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

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Hi Thomas Textstretch is a very long name prone for spelling errors. It is an exact name, but I wonder if a shorter and easier spelled name could be found? It is not easy I am not good enough in english to have a suggestion but maybe somebody else have suggestions. Birthe -- You received

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Hi Coda, thanks for stretching your points out in this way ;–) This is exactly the kind of discussion I had been looking for, very helpful indeed. In the meantime I have updated the docs, have a look at http://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#TextStretch It was of course my intention to make authoring

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Thanks Thomas. Replies within.. On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 12:26:13 AM UTC-5, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > Thanks for your feedback, Coda! > You are right, I will have to explain the id better … and in fact I had > tried to eliminate this parameter at first. But I came to the conclusion > that

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Thanks for your feedback, Coda! You are right, I will have to explain the id better … and in fact I had tried to eliminate this parameter at first. But I came to the conclusion that it might be a feature in some cases, while it is not a real issue in most others. In fact, the id is only needed

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On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 1:41:11 PM UTC-5, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > May I introduce my own variant of this great idea? I tried to simplify a > bit for my limited usecase and I gave it a stretchy appearance (tested in > some browsers only). > > The result can be found

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Thomas - *great *work! You really got the text to stretch in a visual way - really cool! <:-) On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 8:41:11 PM UTC+2, Thomas Elmiger wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > May I introduce my own variant of this great idea? I tried to simplify a > bit for my limited usecase and I

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Hi Thomas Elmiger, Now we are really spoilt for choice. I looks cool and I like that we are able to use transclusion from fields. I had great fun testing this. Birthe Den søndag den 10. juli 2016 kl. 20.41.11 UTC+2 skrev Thomas Elmiger: > > > Hi everyone, > > May I introduce my own variant

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Hi everyone, May I introduce my own variant of this great idea? I tried to simplify a bit for my limited usecase and I gave it a stretchy appearance (tested in some browsers only). The result can be found here: http://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#TextStretch – Yep, I just switched the components of

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I'm afraid I don't have the skills. I'm just a TW5 user who appreciates your work and I think that button would be a nice addition. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

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I'm afraid I don't have the skills. I'm just a TW5 user who appreciates your work and I thinks that button would be a nice addition. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

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Its a great tool already. VERY useful. For instance, it allows texts in variant languages to give definitions and clarifications inline without any saga. To be FULLY compliant with Mr Ted's aims (which he has never actually realized in any way) it would need to be able to NEST expansions AND

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pedruchini, >Let's suppose several contents are displayed at the same time. Yeah, that's a reasonable request. I think I know how to do this so probably try within the next few days. If you want to try it yourself before I have a go; Bascially, the idea is to make the state tiddlers be

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Let's suppose several contents are displayed at the same time. Now, I need to hide them in one click, instead of clicking on every label. Is it possible to create a "clear" button or something that hides all the contents ? If the contents remain displayed when I close the tiddler, the next

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Updated Happy to say the mysterious Firefox artefacts were... not that mysterious after all. Thanks for reporting Birthe! <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

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> > Firefox What the fu..ddlywiki... Where do those thingies come from? Sorry for that. Now I understand what your partner meant with broken. Will look into it. Thanx for reporting! <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To

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Hi Mat, It looks perfect in Chrome and now I understand what you mean with animation. I totally agree with you that we want to see what was added. We used Firefox. Two grey frames, one framing the content and the other to the right and on my small screen often covering sidebar. Birthe

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Birthe C wrote: I think the grey frames may confuse the reader. I updated my wiki and > right after my partner refused to read any further. He thought he had > ruined something ;-) > Whupps!? :-) Do you mean the idea with the outline alltogether? (I think it would be confusing if there

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Hi Mat, I think the grey frames may confuse the reader. I updated my wiki and right after my partner refused to read any further. He thought he had ruined something ;-) Birthe On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 11:15:40 PM UTC+2, Mat wrote: > > StretchText updated

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StretchText updated . The earlier main issues to format the label text properly, now works. Also some styling updates. It's probably ready to be packaged into a plugin now but will let it stay in Beta for more testing in actual use. Do tell if you hit any

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@Hegart, thanks for showing this. Funny how a concept that I'm interested in has been there all the time and I've just missed it. Probably partly because I didn't know the term for it. Yes, nesting does seem to complicate it but I hope to come up with something that keeps simplicity for the

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Hi Mat, I remember looking at the concept of StretchText during the *{{DesignWrite}}* course. I had a go at implementing it myself using Tobias' *<$appear>* plugin. Your macro looks interesting though,

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> > http://www.telescopictext.com/ > @Richard - thanks for the links! Yes, similar concept but/and with a few interesting differences that I'll reflect on for anyone who is interested in the concept; In creating StretchText I wanted it to be very simple to use but this typically comes at the

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Thanks Mat, You inspired me to search again for something I had previously found and then lost, because it was very hard to google for - the term I was lacking was "telescopic text", check this out - http://www.telescopictext.com/ http://www.telescopictext.org/ This Medium article links to