[tw] Re: Using variables in nested lists

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 7:29:05 PM UTC-8, Diego Mesa wrote: > > Can some one clarify on the use of << vs < when referencing variables... > In TiddlyWiki *content*, variables are referenced using <>. The double-bracket syntax is used to avoid conflicts with standard HTML syntax (i.e.,

[tw] Re: Using variables in nested lists

Can some one clarify on the use of << vs < when referencing variables, and why I don't have to wrap with [] before giving it to split. Thanks! On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 3:07:43 PM UTC-6, Jed Carty wrote: > > Sorry, looking at that now it isn't obvious what I am talking about but it >

[tw] Re: Html Export

OK Great that gives me something to work with. Keep in mind you control how a tiddler looks, at least within the text field, so you can choose to use macros and other features that do not show links, tag pills etc... You could transclude other tiddlers into a master tiddler such that on

[tw] Re: Hiccups modifying fonts and color palette (...)

Hi Eric!! Thank you very much, quite generous with your time. Is it allowed to request paid help (on an hourly basis) in this google group? It's going to take too much time for me to iron out the last details and I would rather work with and pay someone that knows what they are doing (TW +

[tw] Re: [TW5] Add ability to save/export other extensions

Eric, If you have no time to investigated this you self could you give some guidance? It may only be a matter of being able to append to the existing table of registered file type after the tiddlywiki file has being opened. Thanks either way Tony On Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:16:24 UTC+11,

[tw] Re: [TW5] Add ability to save/export other extensions

Mario, I know what you say, but as eric says we own the software here that can choose. I have asked this question in other requests to no response. To me this would open a great deal of potential to store code, snipits, powershell scripts, terminal commands and more. For example recently a

[tw] Re: Html Export

TonyM, something more detailed. my wishes to Santa Claus :) An exportoption of the tiddler into a simple html file. The header should simply have the title of the exportet Tiddler in the title maybe export from mytiddler.html But that's not so important because it's easy to change. The first line

[tw] Re: [docs] Introduction to Lists

Mat, I agree but elsewhere I pointed out what I ask for is often not available in existing documentation. Ideally such examples will be right next to the guidance that mentions it. If I prepare some how do I contribute? Regards Tony On Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:05:45 UTC+11, Mat wrote: > >

[tw] Re: [docs] Introduction to Lists

Hi Mat, Nice work! I think without examples that show at least the output, it will be confusing to newbies. That is, they won't immediately grasp what the power of the tool is that is being discussed. You might call "Static" something like "Static/Manual Lists" to convey that it's being

[tw] Re: [TW5] Add ability to save/export other extensions

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 5:43:06 PM UTC-8, PMario wrote: > > You can't, because there is no mime-type: text/cmd > > see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type > and: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#text > Although it is not recommended, you can specify

[tw] Re: Hiccups modifying fonts and color palette (...)

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 5:30:24 PM UTC-8, Patrick Cormier wrote: > > I don't know what to change - for H1 above I read "Helvetica Neue", > Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande" and I'm confused - why specify 4 > fonts, 2 in quotes, 2 without? > Different systems have different, but

[tw] Re: [TW5] Add ability to save/export other extensions

Hi Tony, You can't, because there is no mime-type: text/cmd see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type and: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#text It would be better, to describe, what you want to achieve. -m -- You received this message because you are

[tw] Re: [docs] Introduction to Lists

Mat, Good work, Can I suggest full code examples that a user can copy and past into an empty.html to see it working, in addition I hope we may include examples that refer to the current tiddler using its title, tags or fields. Most people learn by doing. Thaks Tony On Sunday, 3 December 2017

[tw] Re: Hiccups modifying fonts and color palette (...)

Thanks Tony, About the fonts, The problem is I am not a CSS coder or developer... So I can read and follow instructions when they are not open to interpretation, for example, I found how to upload a font to fontsquirrel to download a webkit and then create a tiddler to make the font available.

[tw] [TW5] Add ability to save/export other extensions

Folks With a deep understanding of the core perhaps, In $:/boot/boot.js various types and extensions are registered in lines like $tw.utils.registerFileType("text/plain","utf8",".txt"); How can I add another such as $tw.utils.registerFileType("text/cmd","utf8",".cmd"); So I

[tw] Re: [docs] Introduction to Lists

Thanks for this Mat! Its very helpful and I think essential to the new user experience! On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 6:49:25 PM UTC-6, Mat wrote: > > I hope to get the following "Introductions to Lists" into tiddlywiki.com. > The text is intentionally brief - it is just an overview of the

[tw] Re: Tiddly Extension for Firefox 57?

Mark, In all my years of using Portable apps (perhaps even 20 years) off and On I have never seen malware. Once you install it running a scan against it should be insightful as many people use it and most virus programs know these files, most of which are the same as the original just packaged

[tw] Re: Hiccups modifying fonts and color palette (...)

Patrick, Without necessarily t answering all your questions, - you can use all HTML table and other markup if you know that which allows you to use style or class against most elements - Has the style applying to your smudgy test have a boarder? - I think someone else has addressed

[tw] [docs] Introduction to Lists

I hope to get the following "Introductions to Lists" into tiddlywiki.com. The text is intentionally brief - it is just an overview of the relevant concepts collect in one place. This could/should perhaps be posted on TiddlyWikiDocs ...

[tw] Re: Hard Linebreaks not appearing with some text formatting

Andrew, TiddlyWiki is fantastic as responding to most of html, a Quick check of the CSS rules shows you can add styles or classes to most HTML elements, including Pre https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp Some text Some text or Some text Regards Tony On Sunday,

[tw] Re: Tiddly Extension for Firefox 57?

But portable apps isn't mozilla, so there's the possibility of malware having been inserted. On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 3:35:29 PM UTC-8, Alfonso Arciniega wrote: > > Mark, > > With FF portable you may also use as many profiles as you want: > >

[tw] Re: Html Export

Tobaisch, I am developing my skills and want to build my own exporters so may build one. Can you explain what you want and I will see if I can build one for you? eg; Export the rendered tiddler text field as a HTML snipit, such that it can be pasted into another HTML page (without header

[tw] Re: Tiddly Extension for Firefox 57?

Mark, With FF portable you may also use as many profiles as you want: https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#second_profile There's also FF ESR portable versions in 17 languages if preferred: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox-portable-esr I am using portable versions

[tw] Hiccups modifying fonts and color palette (...)

Hello everyone, I used TW about 12 years ago and I just came back to it today... Long absence, I want to use it to issue newsletters. I made a view only link to the TW hosted on google drive: http://bit.ly/digitransfo-newletter-1712 (you would have to download and open lhe file locally) I'm

[tw] Re: Confused and overwhelmed

Folks, You all miss interpret my comments, and in fact I expected that. I am all for warts and all critical conversation but on a thread with a newbie who had no need to get involved with this issue, just give them solutions. We have perhaps even too many. Once again I have made a quick and

[tw] Re: [INTRO] uni-link plugin

Hi Diego, The uni-link class is basically assigned to every link which uses brackets. Excpet pretty-links and CamelCase links. ... But I like your idea. We could change the macro https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/uni-link/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fwikilabs%2Funi-link%2Funi-link-macro that is

[tw] Re: [INTRO] uni-link plugin

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 3:01:23 AM UTC+1, Diego Mesa wrote: > > I've been trying out this plugin, and I am unsure as to the behavior I am > seeing on my wiki. On my wiki, after installing this plugin and refreshing, > and changing the styled color to orange so I can easily detect it,

[tw] Re: Tiddly Extension for Firefox 57?

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 3:46:02 AM UTC+1, vayira wrote: > > I'm glad I ignored FF's messages about upgrading. I've been using TW > classic for so long I can't remember & I run my life from it. But I'm not > sure what to do now. > > If I upgrade FF then I'll loose autosave by the looks

[tw] Re: Hard Linebreaks not appearing with some text formatting

Hi, When you block format a paragraph, it gets split into separate lines so you need to style them separately: """ //This is a line// ''and this is a new line'' //while this is yet another line// """ The issue is with how HTML itself treats block and inline elements, I think. Regards, Richard

[tw] Re: Html Export

Hi Again, Unfortunately, to do what you want requires you to understand wikitext a bit better. The 'static tiddler' tiddler is using the 'view template' to render the static representation. 'view template' is rendering all the tiddlers that have the tag '$:/tags/ViewTemplate'. The sidebar you

[tw] Re: Hard Linebreaks not appearing with some text formatting

Thanks Tony The use of tags does indeed give the desired line layout. It also allows the use of wikitext formatting such as ''bold'' and //italics//. However, it does also give a fixed-spacing font which may not be desired. Cheers Andrew Mc On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 2:12:24 PM

[tw] Re: Presenting my simple mobile layout...

Hi JD, I was wondering if your plugin's latest version solves a problem that I've experienced when using TW via the mobile browser (chrome). Trying to write something in the editor on mobile usually brings up a javascript error (setting data to null). Is this experienced by others or is it

[tw] Re: Html Export

I think community members should consider taking up the challenge of creating new kinds of exporters. I for example use TW5 a lot to write draft articles for medium.com. I could very well do with an exporter that exports directly to medium.com On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 1:01:10 AM UTC+3,

[tw] Re: Confused and overwhelmed

Information/knowledge in one place is what tiddlywiki is all about. Its basically a html5 app that is portable and that can also be hosted online like a normal website. As many have already pointed out, you can start by checking out tiddlywiki.com You'll find tiddlywiki to be a great way of

[tw] Re: Html Export

Hi Richard, thank you. In the files $:/core/templates/static-tiddler respectively. $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate i find no approach where i could change my exports in such a way that no Tiddler-Links are displayed and that the Tag-Pills in the exported html file can be turned off. I deleted a little

[tw] Re: Tiddly Extension for Firefox 57?

Yes. I downloaded the latest version of the classic TW yesterday to check it out. At least that gives the option of download type saving on any browser in case of emergency. When I have time i'll try to import my tiddlers to that. I'm also thinking of trying waterfox, as I'm very used to a

[tw] Re: Weird Tag

Hi Captain Packers, I think Ton Gerner is right, find the explanation in the link given by Ton. At some point in time I think most of us used that solution, so maybe you imported it from someones old TW. If so be ready to rewrite some buttons. It is also possible that you created a tag with

[tw] Re: Confused and overwhelmed

Ciao TonyM TonyM wrote: > > ... "I bet there are literally hundreds who give up and walk away feeling > stupid" is speculation > ... and I do not think it fair to say it to new users. It could be a "self > fulfilling prophecy". > Yes and a big NO. The issue, to make it coldly rational, is

[tw] Re: Confused and overwhelmed

Ciao RichardWS RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > ... I think there is too much clutter and confusion on the homepage at > present and the text that greets first-time users doesn't do a good enough > job of explaining what Tiddlywiki is and why it might be useful. > Right. RichardWilliamSmith

[tw] Re: Html Export

Hi, As a starting point, you can try looking at $:/core/templates/static-tiddler - it's including everything that has the tag $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate by default, which is the same tag used to include them in the wiki itself, so you could change that and add your new tag to the pieces of the

[tw] Re: Confused and overwhelmed

Hi Tony, Yes, I intended it to sound like speculation. That's why I worded it the way I did. I'm afraid I don't see how it's 'unfair' to anyone if I speculate in public about such a thing and, in general, I don't appreciate attempts to police my speech. FWIW, everything I write here or

[tw] Re: Weird Tag

Hi Captain Packers, I have this weird tag that shows up in my Tag Manager and the tag drop list > when I'm editing a tiddler (see attachment). > > Does anyone know where this comes from and how I can get rid of it? > > I think it is coming from Stephan Hadrek's

Re: [tw] Re: Can node.js be portable with no internet connection

Open the zip file and look for node.exe for a Windows binary or just plain node for a Linux binary, and copy it into the TiddlyServer folder. Sorry for the oversight. On Nov 29, 2017 10:17, "Raymond McDowell" wrote: > Thanks for the directions. I note the instruction > >