[tw5] Re: TW-Shiraz plugin 2.1.2: Stable release

Hi Springer, I am happy you like Shiraz and it is useful in your workflow. Dynamic Tables are highly customizable using templates. What you asked is not difficult and you can do yourself without any hack. The content of each column is displayed using column template. So you can have a column

[tw5] Re: Managing Book Quotes

Manish: Indeed, having a "specific tiddler for each excerpt" is at the very core of what I'm recommending at that demo site. Then each book tiddler uses filtered-list magic (what TW specializes in) to give you access to all of the quotes that come from that book. :) And yet those same quotes

[tw5] Re: Managing Book Quotes

@Springer: Thanks a lot. I have a lot to read up and work on now :) Will get back if I reach a roadblock. Also I've noticed that you have made specific tiddlers for each excerpt, right? That could also be an option for me to consider instead of keeping them as part of the book tiddler. On

[tw5] Re: Using TiddlyWiki for fact-based information modelling and database engineering ???

Like misery, hyperactive-firing-on-all-cylinders synapses love company ... Although right here in this group is fine by me, I'm interested wherever discussion happens. On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 11:30:48 PM UTC-4 bob...@gmail.com wrote: > Charlie, Tones, TiddlyTweeter > > first off, I

[tw5] Re: Using TiddlyWiki for fact-based information modelling and database engineering ???

Charlie, Tones, TiddlyTweeter first off, I hold you personally responsible for firing up my dormant synapses. Thanks for that, you have provided renewed impetus for me to continue pondering these issues, which I essentially ceased to do in any meaningful way since I left my research position

[tw5] Re: Using TiddlyWiki for fact-based information modelling and database engineering ???

TiddlyTweeter wrote: "Very good case example (http://cultconv.com/ [footnote---on mobile its too minuscule!])." yes, I know of the sizing issue on mobile devices. Not sure how to handle that other than a redesign which I am loathe to do given usage stats (~8,000 per month over last calendar

[tw5] Re: Question about markdown folder integration

What was the new markdow plugin you downloaded? On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 2:19:32 PM UTC+10 LeoLeo123 wrote: > I have fixed the issue by downloading a new markdown plugin. > > LeoLeo123 在 2020年11月28日 星期六下午8:21:28 [UTC+8] 的信中寫道： > >> Hi guys. I recently found this post which is about

[tw5] Re: TW-Shiraz plugin 2.1.2: Stable release

Mohammad, As you know, I love Shiraz, and especially the dynamic tables. They are now essential to my workflow. I realize there's one desirable feature-possibility for dynamic tables that would be amazing, and maybe popular enough to be worth requesting from you rather than clumsily trying to

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

Thanks. I did a diff and saw a few things that I must have done in my early TW days. Must have been before I started doing custom stylesheets. Oh well, we'll see if I'll even notice those changes being gone. Onwards and upwards!! On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 1:46:52 PM UTC-7

[tw5] ORM-ish à la TiddlyWiki: Project Updates

Project TiddlyWiki: ORM-ish à la TiddlyWiki *BTW: My announcement for this project has turned into an awesome thread of discussion. Please check out Using TiddlyWiki for fact-based information modelling and database engineering

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

@History Buff try to drag you vanilla base into an empty TW, version 5.1.22 In the import dialog, you can choose to view a diff between your version and the default version to see what has changed. On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 9:38:22 PM UTC+1 History Buff wrote: > You're absolutely right.

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

You're absolutely right. At some point in the distant past, I must have modified vanilla base for some reason and forgotten. Now I wonder what I changed. Thanks so much! On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 1:34:48 PM UTC-7 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote: > History Buff: > > >> So when I drag my TW

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

History Buff: > So when I drag my TW over the upgrade tool and then it presents a list of >> tiddlers before I click the upgrade button, I'm assuming that this is >> the >> list of tiddlers that are getting imported into the prerelease version >> from >> my TW. Is that

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

So I did the upgrade via the upgrade website again only this time I unchecked vanilla base after dragging my TW into the upgrade tool. Saved the file with a new name and that works just fine. So when I drag my TW over the upgrade tool and then it presents a list of tiddlers before I click the

[tw5] Re: clever default value for a parameter

On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 12:09:38 PM UTC-8 jn.pierr...@gmail.com wrote: > I am writing a macro with three parameters. If omitted, the third shall be > equal to the first one. This cannot be hardwired of course! So I need to > code it. With a filter. > \define itemlist2(tag:"thème",

[tw5] Re: Query: RANGE Operator. Does it only work in base-10?

Ciao Tony Mark S.' reply indicates the hex-dec translate numbers might be derivable without Evan in vanilla TW. My main point was that dealing with Unicode code points you really need to be a hexadecimal :-). It is complicated in multiple ways. A major one being that UTF-16 breaks once beyond

[tw5] clever default value for a parameter

I am writing a macro with three parameters. If omitted, the third shall be equal to the first one. This cannot be hardwired of course! So I need to code it. With a filter. As far as I have seen, only the "regexp" filter can be used. Here is my code. I try to replace "excluding" argument by

[tw5] Re: geztting the first word/letter of a list of tiddlers

@Sylvain 1) of course you can use my code! 2) you could have a dictionnary when key "SN" would be valued at "Sylvain Naudin" but that would not do for two people with the same initial. Alternatively, you could have several values for SN, a bit like a hash-table can have internally. Then you

[tw5] Re: [plugin] TOC generic - shows toc,backlinks,list and listed up front

Thanks for the reply. I have used inline editing of transcluded tiddlers with rider plug in in my TWs (https://clutterstack.github.io/can-tw/rider-plugin/ <(https://clutterstack.github.io/can-tw/rider-plugin/>). I was referring to a similar functionality. I have also seen such an

[tw5] Popup Tagger Plugin problems

Hi all I am trying to use the http://eucaly-tw5.tiddlyspot.com/#PopupTagger. It is simply not visible in any tiddler, even though $:/plugins/eucaly/popuptagger/TagBar is tagged $:/tags/ViewTemplate. See https://giffmex.org/experiments/sp.dumpster.template.html. Open any regular tiddler. The

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

I confirmed that I had not changed vanilla base even inadvertently. I also tried the empty version of the prerelease and had the same results. There must be one of my stylesheets that's overriding the theme tweak, but I don't understand why I wouldn't have seen this before. I'll continue

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

Hi @Soren Bjornstad, I'll have a look and fix this issue Soren Bjornstad schrieb am Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2020 um 17:14:36 UTC+1: > I use the vim keymapping with CodeMirror. After upgrading, when I'm in > normal mode and the cursor is supposed to display as a block, it is instead > completely

Re: [tw5] Date format for the Timelines plugin

I’ve made some further adjustments to support working with negative dates: https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#DateFormat:%5B%5BDate%20Fields%5D%5D%20DateFormat Let me know how it goes, Best wishes Jeremy. > On 30 Nov

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

I use the vim keymapping with CodeMirror. After upgrading, when I'm in normal mode and the cursor is supposed to display as a block, it is instead completely invisible. It looks normal when it's in I-beam mode. I am guessing this is related to theming the text input area. The issue is not

[tw5] Re: Using TiddlyWiki for fact-based information modelling and database engineering ???

Man, I enjoyed that. Great way to get these rusty synapses kick-started for the day while appreciating my first cup o' joe. Tones, your write how I think, and moments like these I have the sense that, maybe, I'm not so alone. Maybe I do have a cognitive brother from another mother ... Oh

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

@History Buff while unlikely, the upgrade mechanism could potentially be the culprit as well. Instead of using the upgrader, save the empty file from https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/empty.html and try importing the contents of your old TW into it, and see if the problem is still there. What

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

I can confirm that I have not edited vanilla base. I tried changing the font setting on the prerelease website and that worked just fine. So there' something about my TW that's causing the issue. I'll have to pull that thread to see what I can find. Thanks for the suggestions. On Tuesday,

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

@History Buff also confirm that you have not edited the $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/base tiddler On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 3:29:47 PM UTC+1 Saq Imtiaz wrote: > @History Buff without more specifics I am afraid there isn't much I can do > to debug this. > > Can you please specify: > - a

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

@History Buff without more specifics I am afraid there isn't much I can do to debug this. Can you please specify: - a font family that fails to work as expected. - whether the same problem occurs if you visit tiddlywiki.com/prerelease and apply that font family via theme tweaks. -- You

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

One further observation is that it's only the "font family" setting that seems to be having the issue. The "editor font family" setting is being used. I haven't checked the "code font family" yet. On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 7:24:59 AM UTC-7 History Buff wrote: > I've tried several system

[tw5] Re: Imminent release of v5.1.23

I've tried several system fonts (installed with Windows), the google fonts that I have embedded in my TW as well as exactly what you had and none of them had any effect. It's as if that particular setting is being completely ignored. I upgraded my TW via the upgrade website and saved as a new

[tw5] Re: Understanding how macro expansion works

Hi Nico Welcome back. While you got a very good explanations from experts, I may suggest to have https://kookma.github.io/TW-Scripts/ as collection of solutions always may give you some direction. Off topic: I know your Project Manager Manager plugin and more specific the Notebook theme

[tw5] Re: [plugin][annuncement] login for multi user wikis: LoginCurtain-mod

I have no constructive feedback yet, but I'm extremely grateful that work continues in this area! I feel like the multi-user folks are not as vocal here, but we appreciate the hard work in putting these together! I've put something really basic together for my team's own purposes, but excited

Re: [tw5] Re: Understanding how macro expansion works

Hi Nico, I think it would be good to document how macro expansion works in > different contexts (or maybe it is documented but I missed it?). > I think the information is there but spread out in several places, like "macros in wikitext" and "widget attributes". So it can be difficult to grasp

Re: [tw5] Re: Understanding how macro expansion works

Eric Shulman writes: Hi Eric, > Other than those two actions, the macro contents are simply "returned" for > further processing in the calling context. It is this context which > determines what happens next. If the macro occurs within wikitext (your > first example), then the macro call

Re: [tw5] Re: Understanding how macro expansion works

Saq Imtiaz writes: Hi Saq, > When you use variable widget attributes (or indirect attributes via > references), the value of the variable is fetched/transcluded and that > literal value is assigned to the attribute. There is no further > wikify/rendering step. > > The difference is in

[tw5] Re: Understanding how macro expansion works

On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 4:12:00 AM UTC-8 Nicolas Petton wrote: > I would expect macros to be expanded recursively, before any parsing is > done on the string. It seems to be mostly the case, but I do not > understand the following. > > If I define & use macros as > \define foo() 42 >

[tw5] Re: Understanding how macro expansion works

> > If I define & use macros as > > \define foo() 42 > > \define bar() <> > > <> > > The expansion works as I'm expecting it to, and the output is > > 42 > Macros only do text substitution and then transclude the resultant string. So the macro <> returns <> but the entire string is then

[tw5] Re: [plugin] TOC generic - shows toc,backlinks,list and listed up front

> I found this plug in recently only and it is very useful in handling > backlinks. Thanks for making such a nice plug in. I think this plug in has > the best UI among the plug ins which handle backlinks > Thanks. Glad to hear it. > (Although I might prefer less no of buttons). > feel free

[tw5] Understanding how macro expansion works

Hi all, I haven't touched TW in quite some time. Yesterday I wanted to get back to a project I started 6 months ago, and was quickly stuck when using macros, realizing that my assumptions on how macro expansion works were wrong. I would expect macros to be expanded recursively, before any

Re: [tw5] Re: [ Streams ] : feedback and issues

I gathered it was mostly behind the scenes components. I am very much looking forward to the new release and continued progress on Streams. It's become my daily drive for research and writing at this point. You (and the large pool of contributors) have created a wonderful tool! On Mon, Nov 30,

[tw5] Re: [plugin][annuncement] login for multi user wikis: LoginCurtain-mod

Dear Tony Thanks for the invitation. I have been occupied by life stuff for some time, so no energy for TW. As it has been quite some time I guess you have moved on. But if not, sure I join you. Interested to see what you are doing. onsdag den 30. september 2020 kl. 01.41.05 UTC+2 skrev TW

[tw5] Re: [plugin][annuncement] login for multi user wikis: LoginCurtain-mod

*Announcement*: LoginCurtain-mod *Date*: 2020/12/01 *Release*: 1.2.0 Download: LoginCurtain-mod If using the plugin with mat's material theme, some

[tw5] Re: Color text based on a field

Better late than never: thanks a lot for the help!  On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 3:48:26 PM UTC+1 Eric Shulman wrote: > On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 5:33:22 AM UTC-8 sin...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> I am trying to do something I thought would be easy, but it turned out >> not to be: