[tw5] Re: How to derive future dates from <> macro?

2018-10-12 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Mohammad, Yes, that's exactly what I needed! Thanks! I tested it and it's working now. Cheers, Jeff -- 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

[tw5] Re: How to derive future dates from <> macro?

2018-10-11 Thread Jeff Vance
Great! I like this idea even more. But I'm running into a problem. Say you create the entire list, including the wrap around from 52 to 01. Now "01" is in the list twice. The macro works for all cases except for 01 as the input. It must see that as the last entry in the list rather than

[tw5] Re: How to derive future dates from <> macro?

2018-10-11 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Tony, Thanks for the pointer to the plugins. After thinking about it, I'm actually tempted to just create a dictionary tiddler that serves as a lookup table for incrementing each week. It only requires 52 entries. That also takes care of the wrap around to 0. Entry 52 can just list 0 as

[tw5] How to derive future dates from <> macro?

2018-10-10 Thread Jeff Vance
I've been using the <> macro to get current dates, year, week number, etc. I'm now facing a situation where I have to anticipate what *next* week is going to be, based on the current week number. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if it's possible and nothing is coming to mind. I can

[tw5] Re: Is it possible to list tiddlers that have one tag, but sort them by a second tag?

2018-10-10 Thread Jeff Vance
Actually...I just realized this is a silly question. If I sort by "created" field, the order will always stay the same, even if tiddlers are edited later. So it shouldn't be a big deal as long a tiddler isn't deleted and created again in the future. Still, I'm curious if there is a way to

[tw5] Is it possible to list tiddlers that have one tag, but sort them by a second tag?

2018-10-10 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm not sure if this is possible: Say I have a bunch of tiddlers tagged "Team Meeting", and each meeting also has a tag for the week that it occurred. What I want is to generate a table of contents that lists all the team meetings, sorted by week. I kind of prefer to use the tag for sorting

[tw] Possible to get the TOC style with normal tabs macro?

2017-12-25 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm not sure if this is possible, but there are many times I like the look of the table-of-contents, but I don't want to generate a full hierarchy of tagged titles. I just want standard tabbed list of titles, but with the look of the TOC. I don't see any way to control the depth of the TOC

[tw] How to use the "strict" flag for tag operator?

2017-12-25 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm trying to use the new suffix option in the tag filter operator, as described here: https://tiddlywiki.com/#tag%20Operator I don't understand the syntax for how to actually set the "strict" flag. At first I thought it would be like: tag[:strict some_tag]. Or maybe tag[strict:

[tw] Re: TW5 basics, how to create a list of tiddler tagged with current tiddler

2017-04-30 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm referring to the button in the editor toolbar that says "Insert a preconfigured snippet of text". I created custom entries for each of those examples. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[tw] Re: TW5 basics, how to create a list of tiddler tagged with current tiddler

2017-04-30 Thread Jeff Vance
I do this so often that I created several snippets that I insert regularly (using the snippet editor button), each listing titles in a different way. I use all of these different methods depending on the kind of content and how much of it there is. These might give you other ideas: *Titles

[tw] Re: [TW5] Can I bulk delete a tag?

2017-04-30 Thread Jeff Vance
Thank you! I just tried this and it worked perfectly. I also appreciate the warning on backing up, although I'm extra careful about that stuff so no need to worry. (I actually create 2 backups to different locations on a regular basis). Cheers, Jeff -- You received this message because

[tw] [TW5] Can I bulk delete a tag?

2017-04-29 Thread Jeff Vance
Not sure if this is possible: I have about 100 tiddlers that have a certain tag. I decided I don't want that tag to exist anymore, but keep all those tiddlers since they are also tagged by other things. Is there a way to remove the tag from every tiddler in one operation? I don't want to

[tw] Re: [TW5] Announcing the release of TiddlyWiki v5.1.14

2017-04-27 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm confused by the following claimed update: "Optional automatic relinking of references to renamed tiddlers" Is that referring to the checkbox to rename the tags and list field entries that contain that tiddler? When I first read that, I thought it meant it would update standard links to

[tw] Re: Discovered Mixing Firefox Tiled Tabs with TiddlyWiki

2017-04-22 Thread Jeff Vance
Ah, thanks for clearing this up. You're right...I only assumed it was read-only because there are no menu buttons available to perform an edit when a tiddler is open in a new window. But given that by default none of my tiddlers will ever have active elements for editing, they will probably

[tw] Discovered Mixing Firefox Tiled Tabs with TiddlyWiki

2017-04-20 Thread Jeff Vance
Not sure if anyone else has tried this trick, but I was trying the Firefox extension Tile Tabs which lets you take multiple tabs and display them at the same time split screen, or tiled within the firefox window. I'm finding this words really well with tiddlywiki in fullscreen. Because I'll

Re: [tw] TiddlyFox seemed to stop working

2017-04-20 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Jeremy, I just tested it out in the developer edition. I still see the "Move to new Window" problem I mentioned earlier (maybe it was missed). I enable saving, then right-click the tab, select Move to new Window, and in the new window TiddlyFox button appears disabled (even though it

[tw] [TW5] Retaining Styles in Exported HTML

2017-04-18 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi folks, I've been experimenting with drafting up stuff inside TW, then exporting to other places. For example, I might write up status reports for work, then export these (or copy/paste) into an email. Or I might draft a document, export to HTML, then import that file into LibreOffice or

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] Core drag-and-drop improvements

2017-04-18 Thread Jeff Vance
Thanks for pointing these out Alex. I didn't realize so many new possibilities were opening up with this feature. I completely agree with your point on the ability to change the name of the tag tiddler. I run into this problem all the time. I start collecting and grouping things, only later

Re: [tw] Re: TiddlyFox seemed to stop working

2017-04-17 Thread Jeff Vance
I haven't had any major problems with TiddlyFox, but just now I found what looks like a bug, but not a show stopper. If you open a TW file and enable saving, then move the tab to a new window (either drag, or right-click "move to new window"), in the new window the TiddlyFox icon is no longer

[tw] Re: No Linking to External Files in node.js setup?

2017-04-16 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Mark: this is interesting. Exploring your idea of using another node.js application to serve files, I found this: https://github.com/indexzero/http-server I tried it on its own and it works very well, but not sure how to make it play nicely with TiddlyWiki. Maybe there is some sort of

[tw] Re: No Linking to External Files in node.js setup?

2017-04-16 Thread Jeff Vance
Ok, thanks for the clarification and tips! I was not using relative external links before (I wasn't aware that was possible). I'm definitely switching to that way of linking now. Especially since most of the stuff I link to are in a dropbox folder and I'm running out of storage (for the

[tw] No Linking to External Files in node.js setup?

2017-04-15 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm experimenting with using node.js setup for the first time. My personal TW has gotten pretty huge and I was curious to see what using the node.js setup is like. However, one major problem is I have lots of links to PDF files using file:///path/to/file. They worked fine before, but under

[tw] Re: [TW5] Is there No way to spell check with the Code Mirror Plugin?

2017-04-02 Thread Jeff Vance
I did some experimenting and google searching and found what seems like kind of a hack to get spell check sort-of working. But it is awkward. I found something that said you could force Firefox to spell check everything on any page with a bookmark that has this:

[tw] [TW5] Can't change default story position for opening tiddlers from pop-out window

2017-03-31 Thread Jeff Vance
I don't know if anyone has ever noticed this, but you know how the control panel has settings for "Navigation from within the Story River" and "Navigation from outside the Story River?" And you can specify the new tiddlers open above or below the story river. I assumed that "outside" the

[tw] Re: [TW5] Core drag-and-drop improvements

2017-03-31 Thread Jeff Vance
I was thinking of what might be a convenient way of taking advantage of the drag-and-drop. One that came to mind is when you're writing a document and you want to draft each section in a different tiddler. In the writing process, you inevitably will need to reorganize sections or insert

[tw] [TW5] Is there No way to spell check with the Code Mirror Plugin?

2017-03-28 Thread Jeff Vance
I did a search and saw this question come up several times in the past, but there has never been a clear answer. The browser's spell check does not work when using the Code Mirror plugin. In the past threads, the solution was always to disable Code Mirror! To me, that is not really a solution.

[tw] [TW5] Transcluding a Core Button is Hidden in pop-out Window

2017-03-28 Thread Jeff Vance
I put the following in several tiddlers as a shortcut to the "New Here" button. I didn't want to put it permanently in the toolbar, but these particular tiddlers generate index table of tiddlers tagged with this one. So I thought it would be convenient to put a "New Here" icon at the bottom

[tw] Re: [TW5] Two or more columns of tiddlers in the story river (feature request)

2017-03-26 Thread Jeff Vance
Bumping this old thread: I agree this would be a fantastic feature. Especially to be able to drag/drop titles between 2 story rivers side-by-side. Or to be able to edit a tiddler in one river, while scrolling and referencing information in the other river. Any chance this will eventually be

[tw] Re: [TW5] Core drag-and-drop improvements

2017-03-21 Thread Jeff Vance
Quick question: Does the drag and drop only work when the filter is based on the contents of a field? It appears to be the case. I see in the demo it grabs all the days of the week from the List field and drag/drop saves the new order in that field. So what if you use a filter that doesn't

[tw] Re: [TW5] AboveStory content with Classic vs Pop Story views

2017-03-20 Thread Jeff Vance
Ok, I did yet another experiment and things are looking promising. I tried this Top Story View as an alternative to the classic: https://github.com/felixhayashi/TW5-TopStoryView It turns out the Top StoryView *does* scroll so the AboveStory content is visible...although for some reason the

[tw] Re: [TW5] AboveStory content with Classic vs Pop Story views

2017-03-20 Thread Jeff Vance
I experimented some more with this, comparing the Classic story view to the Pop story view. I also looked at the code in $:/core/modules/storyviews/pop.js and $:/core/modules/storyviews/classic.js. I'm really confused why there is a difference in scrolling between these when there is

[tw] Re: [TW5] Core drag-and-drop improvements

2017-03-19 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm very excited to use these new features. One odd thing I noticed: I just experimented with dragging the entries in a tag drop down list. I noticed that it isn't possible to drag a title directly to the end of the list. You have to instead drag it to be 2nd to last, then drag the last

[tw] Re: [TW5] Scrolling with Top Toolbar Plugin

2017-03-13 Thread Jeff Vance
Thanks for the suggestions guys! I played around with these settings and it is a little better. But I might have to just drop this whole idea when using seemless mode. To me it only works well when the tiddler borders are there to help push things down. Cheers, Jeff -- You received this

[tw] [TW5] AboveStory content with Classic vs Pop Story views

2017-03-13 Thread Jeff Vance
I was experimenting with keeping a tiddler as a header that is permanently above the story, using the $:/tags/AboveStory. I noticed that the classic story view then starts behaving a little differently from Pop and Zoom when it comes to scrolling and opening new tiddlers. For example, in

[tw] Re: [TW5] Scrolling with Top Toolbar Plugin

2017-03-12 Thread Jeff Vance
It just occurred to me that this problem might be more serious for me because I'm using the seemless theme that removes the tiddler borders. I noticed on the plugin demo site, the problem isn't as bad (I assume because the added borders push down the relative start of the top tiddler). --

[tw] [TW5] Scrolling with Top Toolbar Plugin

2017-03-12 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi All, I've been experimenting with Ton Gerner's excellent top toolbar plugin: http://tw5toolbar.tiddlyspot.com/ However, one thing is really bugging me: the default scrolling position of the story when opening a new tiddler. Surely others have seen this? After opening, by default the story

[tw] Re: [TW5] Tinka 0.3.0 release

2017-03-03 Thread Jeff Vance
Thanks for this update! I just started using the previous version and have found it to be *very* helpful. I'll switch to this new one immediately. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[tw] Re: [TW5] How to default SelectWidget to the first entry in a list?

2017-02-27 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi guys: thanks for the suggestions. However, it seems to be not quite so simple. Simply setting the default selection in the widget doesn't seem to actually activate that selection. I assume I have to actually update the text of the state tiddler being used by the widget so it activates

[tw] [TW5] Broken code block word wrapping in transcluded tiddler with vertical tabs.

2017-02-27 Thread Jeff Vance
By chance, I found a specific scenario that seems to break word-wrapping when transcluding tiddlers into tabs. I wonder if this is a TW bug. It specifically happens with a code-block that contains long dashed lines. It's very easy to recreate with the following: 1. Create a tiddler with a

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] How to create a basic plugin that bundles some content?

2017-02-27 Thread Jeff Vance
Thanks Ton! That was exactly the problem. The vanilla style was being applied after mine. I added the list-after field and it works now. Cheers, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] How to create a basic plugin that bundles some content?

2017-02-27 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Andreas, Thanks for the explanation of the shadow tiddler transformation, however I think there is something more going on here that is messing up the stylesheet. Not only did I make sure to save and refresh after creating the plugin, I also downloaded a fresh empty TW and copied the

[tw] Re: [TW5] How to create a basic plugin that bundles some content?

2017-02-26 Thread Jeff Vance
Ah, thanks for the tip! I did some searching and I found the Tinka plugin, although it was a bit hard at first since it is no longer available where it was originally posted. I tried it out and it seems to be working really well. I only have one problem so far: one of my tiddlers I want to

[tw] [TW5] How to create a basic plugin that bundles some content?

2017-02-26 Thread Jeff Vance
Maybe this is a really basic question, but I did some searching and I'm having a hard time finding some basic steps on how to create a plugin. I'm not doing anything advanced with javascript, etc. I just have a bunch of tiddlers with some custom content, some images, and some macros I created

[tw] [TW5] How to default SelectWidget to the first entry in a list?

2017-02-26 Thread Jeff Vance
I have a tiddler with a SelectWidget that runs a filter to get a list of options. I want the selection to always default to the very first entry, which will change over time as new tiddlers are created. I haven't seen any examples of how to do this. I see that I can set a default selection

[tw] Re: [TW5] How to get all tiddlers not tagged by a list of tags?

2017-02-21 Thread Jeff Vance
Ah! I think I figured it out! I kept experimenting and I came up with this: <> Looks like it's working by doing 2 runs, the first to get everything tagged by the current tiddler then removing the results of another run that gets everything tagged with a status tag. I'm not sure if there

[tw] Re: [TW5] How to get all tiddlers not tagged by a list of tags?

2017-02-21 Thread Jeff Vance
A quick example to clarify what I'm trying to do: What I'd really like is to do something like this. - I have a series of "status" tags, such as To Do, Done, Obsolete, Review. The tiddlers for each of these tags are tagged "status". - So I can get a list of all "status" tags with

[tw] [TW5] How to get all tiddlers not tagged by a list of tags?

2017-02-21 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm a little stuck trying to create a filter that will take a list of tags, then retrieve all the tiddlers that are missing ALL of those tags. Is this possible? I've been going through the list of possible filter operators and I can't seem to find a way to do it. !tag works with just a single

[tw] Re: [TW5] Transcluding a tiddler Title above body text (with link to open)

2017-02-16 Thread Jeff Vance
Ok, you are correct! I tried adding a line break above and it suddenly worked. A line break below was not necessary. However, I kept experimenting and I found another way that I like better without using the view widget. Using your suggestion to apply tags, I can make the header a link

[tw] [TW5] Transcluding a tiddler Title above body text (with link to open)

2017-02-16 Thread Jeff Vance
I found a few examples online that show how to use a template that will transclude the title of a tiddler above the body text. However, I tried creating such a template and applying it to the Tabs macro and it doesn't wikify the Title, or in fact anything I try to type there. What I really

[tw] Re: [TW5] Any way to stop transcluded tiddlers {{!!title}} from matching the parent title?

2017-02-16 Thread Jeff Vance
This is an interesting trick. I gave it a try and it worked. And thanks for the template idea, although I didn't need to do that in this case. I'm already using a macro that then calls the tabs macro, getting the current tiddler title. So I just put the <$tiddler> entry inside that outer

[tw] [TW5] Any way to stop transcluded tiddlers {{!!title}} from matching the parent title?

2017-02-15 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm very confused on how to manage the currentTiddler and {{!!title}} entries in a tiddler when it becomes transcluded. I get that this is a powerful feature that allows a template tiddler to take on the title of whatever tiddler it is transcluded into. But what about situations when I

[tw] Re: How do you substitute a tiddler title into a macro parameter?

2017-02-15 Thread Jeff Vance
Ah, Perfect! Thank you! Works exactly as I wanted. I'll definitely keep this in mind if I ever need to do something like this again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[tw] How do you substitute a tiddler title into a macro parameter?

2017-02-15 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm having trouble substituting the title of a tiddler into an argument to the tabs macro. What am I doing wrong? This is in a macro I'm defining to take the title of the current tiddler, create tabs for all tiddler tagged by this one, then include an additional tiddler that has a "_Summary"

[tw] Re: Tag macro causes multiple drop-down menus to open

2017-02-05 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Tobias:Thank you! I copied that 2nd solution and it is working perfectly. I have this in a macro that I'm using all over the place and until now the multiple pop-ups have been annoying. I'm so glad to have this cleaned up now. Cheers, Jeff On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 3:40:26

Re: [tw] Re: Is it possible to get the size of a list filter into a variable?

2017-02-05 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Jeremy, Your example of a count filter operator is exactly what I'm looking for! Looks like I'll just have to make do without this for now. Although I'm excited to see that you're considering adding this. I'm assuming there must be other cases that a count operator would be useful. On

[tw] Re: Is it possible to get the size of a list filter into a variable?

2017-02-05 Thread Jeff Vance
Using limit operator with 1 looks like a pretty handy idea (I'll keep it in mind), but it doesn't quite help with my current problem. It looks like that just helps you determine if the list is empty or not. I'm trying to get the exact size of the list. On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 1:50:21 PM

[tw] Is it possible to get the size of a list filter into a variable?

2017-02-05 Thread Jeff Vance
I'm not sure if this is possible. I'm assuming it isn't since I've tried many things. What I'm doing is I created a macro to generate a table of links, organized by certain tags they have. It's using HTML table syntax since the size of the table is dynamic, it is easy to just keep adding

[tw] Tag macro causes multiple drop-down menus to open

2017-02-04 Thread Jeff Vance
I like using the tag macro to insert a tag pill in wiki text. I've been using this a lot to generate tables of links where I would instead insert the tag pill to give the option to go either to that tiddler, or select something tagged by that tiddler. However, I noticed a strange problem:

[tw] Can I put code blocks inside tables?

2016-08-31 Thread Jeff Vance
I like to keep lots of notes of syntax on various programming languages or command line tricks. In other note tools, I often would create a table that lists the commands in one column and a description in another. I can't find any way to do this in TW5 with so many `|<> characters. I can't

Re: [tw] CodeMirror plugin not highlighting TW5 syntax

2016-08-19 Thread Jeff Vance
Ah, ok, then that explains it! I didn't realize nobody ever created a TW5 highlighter. I guess it is too significant a change from the TWC highlighter to just make a few updates to that one? On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 3:03:42 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Jeff > > Has anyone else

[tw] CodeMirror plugin not highlighting TW5 syntax

2016-08-18 Thread Jeff Vance
Has anyone else noticed this? I started using the CodeMirror plugin and if I'm using Markdown or TWC syntax, the editor highlights fine. But for TW5 syntax, it doesn't work. I thought it was kind of strange since I assumed it would at least work for the default parser. I checked my

[tw] Re: [TW5] Another way to make multiple tag-like fields

2016-08-02 Thread Jeff Vance
Hi Jed, Thanks a lot for making this plugin. I was trying to find a way to organize my notes a certain way and this solves it for me perfectly. I did find a small bug: - When creating new fields for tags in the control panel, if you accidentally enter an invalid name for the field (like

[tw] How can I add a top banner when printing?

2016-07-28 Thread Jeff Vance
I want to create a setup where when I print the current story of tiddlers, it automatically inserts a banner at the top of the page. I can sort of get what I want by creating a Print Banner tiddler that has a logo and big heading, then manually open this tiddler at the top, followed by a few