[tw] Zoomin Hidden Menu Problem?

2014-07-06 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
This is not a major issue but I can't help the thought that it wasn't what was intended. Perhaps this comment is best thought of as a suggestion for doing things slightly differently. Working with 5.13, with the story view set to Zoomin, I find that the hide the right menu button (the right poi

Re: [tw] Re: [TW5] How do I stop automatic link creation?

2014-07-08 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
As long as you are modifying the handling of camelcase, could you give us an easy option to disable it completely? As someone who works in room A304H with my friend McMullin about matters concerning the chemistry of H2S and H2O for such companies as ExxonMobil, I can safely say that I've had to

[tw] Quickedit functions in TW5

2014-07-15 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Among the reasons I maintain both TW5 and TWC versions are the modifications that Eric Shulman created. Most of those were wonderful and a few went beyond that. I know that TW5 is different enough from TWC that there is little hope of getting equivalents for most of those any time soon but the

[tw] Re: [TW5] Editable Table plugin.

2014-07-20 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Has anyone gotten this to work under version 5.0.13? I've tried everything I can think of including not only importing the tiddlers mentioned but basically all the tiddlers in the braintest wiki. So far I've gotten nothing but the first column to show up and they don't appear to be editable. D

[tw] Re: [TW5] Editable Table plugin.

2014-07-21 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
I see. Obviously I missed Danielo's question about why his code didn't work anymore. It seems to me that there are quite a few things that the main Tiddlywiki site link to but that don't actually work with the available versions. I suppose that until the program gets more stable that will alway

[tw] Re: [TW5] Editable Table plugin.

2014-07-23 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Maybe I'm just slow but I went to Braintest (http://braintest.tiddlyspot.com/) and called up the tiddler "Inline editable tables". It listed four tiddlers to copy over: - $:/core/modules/filters/split.js

[tw] Re: [TW5] Editable Table plugin.

2014-07-23 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
All right. Here's what I did that made it work: I wen to Tiddlywiki.com and downloaded a clean copy of Empty.html. I went to Braintest (http://braintest.tiddlyspot.com/) and did the drop and drag as instructed for three of the files: - $:/plugins/skeeve/newtiddler.js

[tw] Re: [TW5] Editable Table plugin.

2014-07-24 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Editable Tables are proving to be almost exactly what I had hoped they would be and they will definitely become part of my standard version of Tiddlywiki. There is one thing I would like the tables to do that I haven't figured out yet: I would like to be able to put a link in one of the cells t

[tw] How do I get a working Tiddlywiki from Github?

2014-08-02 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Probably a bit off topic but Github mystifies me. After watching the Tiddlywiki hangout, I thought I would download it and play with it on my machine. The version that was on screen said "Find me at Github" or something like that but I don't see how to do that. Can someone either point me at a

[tw] Re: How do I get a working Tiddlywiki from Github?

2014-08-03 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Thanks Richard. I had missed that particular tiddler. Still, I've come up against a stumbling block in the documentation of the procedure that seems unclear to me as a novice. Step 3 says Choose a location in your file system (eg TW5) for you plugin project; > issue commands to: > > –create t

[tw] Re: [TW5] Announcing TiddlyWiki 5.0.14-beta

2014-08-19 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Two trivial suggestions concerning the new import function: If possible I would like to see a checkbox that would allow me to unselect all or alternatively start with none selected. If all I want to import is just a few tiddlers, having to individually uncheck hundreds of individual tiddlers wi

[tw] Does Story Width actually do anything?

2014-09-15 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Playing with the Theme Tweaks on the Control Panel and I have to say I am mystified by what, if anything, the "Story Width" entry does. Though the onpage documentation for Tiddler Width says that Tiddler Width is "used in the zoomin storyview", it appears that it actually controls the width of

[tw] Vertical alignment in Tables

2014-09-17 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
I'm sure there's an easy way to do this and I'm just as sure it has already been discussed but I have to ask anyway. At the moment, Tiddlywiki vertically aligns all table cells to center by default. I would like to have some tables to have a vertical alignment with the text in the cells all at

[tw] Re: Vertical alignment in Tables

2014-09-17 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
When I did that it appeared to change the arrangement of all my tables. I was hoping the change only some of them. Specifically the ones with a class of tw-skimmel as done in a table with |myClass tw-skimmel|k -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tiddl

[tw] Re: Vertical alignment in Tables

2014-09-17 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Bingo! A) That works exactly as expected and B) That was exactly how I got there; by copying from the documentation. Perhaps some clarification to the docs is in order. Thanks, Eric. So are you going to start modifying some of your wonderful modifications to work with TW5? -- You received t

[tw] Trivial bug in TW5.18

2014-09-18 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Not an important issue but one that should be fixed someday. When switching from Classic storyview to Zoomin storyview with only one tiddler visible, Tiddlywiki makes the one visible tiddler invisible leaving the screen blank other than the sidebar. Its probably trivial if few people switch bet

[tw] Re: Vertical alignment in Tables

2014-09-18 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Are there some specific plugins that you would like to see me work on first? -e Where to start? I guess my top priorities are: The Table of Contents inside a tiddler based on headers (though I realize there is a technical issue there.) The editor functions rank well up there. The functions t

[tw] Re: Vertical alignment in Tables

2014-09-18 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Are there some specific plugins that you would like to see me work on first? -e Where to start? I guess my top priorities are: The Table of Contents inside a tiddler based on headers (though I realize there is a technical issue there.) The editor functions rank well up there. The functions t

[tw] Re: How do i use this type of list

2014-09-19 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Daniel's response is the one I found most useful. I edited one of my files with the tag $:/tags/stylesheet and created the bit of CSS code in Daniel's link like this: .tw-list ol { counter-reset: item; } .tw-list ol li { display: block; position: relative; } .tw-list ol li:before {

[tw] Trivial color choice bug in TW5.1

2014-09-23 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Using the darker palettes with black backgrounds, specifically Rocker and Contrast, there are a couple of issues that may need to be addressed. 1. The hover color for many of the buttons/tools/whatever is black which when using Rocker and Contrast renders the buttons invisible when you hover ov

[tw] Drop and Drag Import Bug

2014-09-25 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
I've noticed a bug in the drop and drag method of importing that I wasn't planning on reporting just yet because I've had difficulties making it happen consistently. However, since I just lost some work to this little beastie, I've decided to raise it at this time anyway. Fortunately, it wasn't

[tw] Re: Drop and Drag Import Bug

2014-09-26 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Giving it some more thought, properly considered this routine of replacing a modified tiddler with a previous version that has been held in a temporary store might qualify as a feature rather than a bug. In essence what I did was to undo my changes even though I had saved the changes. Has someo

[tw] Codemirror Documentation

2014-09-29 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Among the tiddlytools I've used the most were the Quick Editor tools. I've been looking at standins until such time as tiddlytools is updated for TW5. Among the items I've looked at is the Codemirror plugin. http://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror/ Following the link http://codemirr

[tw] Re: Codemirror Documentation

2014-09-30 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
> > I checked again the codemirror plugin documentation. > > Did you read it? Try to create the $:/config/CodeMirror > > tiddler > as descirbe

[tw] Re: Codemirror Documentation

2014-09-30 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
> > Here is a codemirror plugin version where I included some themes and some > useful tools like match-bracket > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/jfz48v01rnec9l2/%24__plugins_tiddlywiki_codemirror.tid?dl=0 > > I don't know if it works with never versions of TW5, just try it with > tw5.0.15 or so. >

[tw] Re: Codemirror Documentation

2014-10-01 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
> > simply drag the .tid into your TW5 that runs inside the browser. Tid files > are just TW5's uniform way to store and transport tiddlers. In this case > you don't need to worry about Node.js. A .tid file contains either a single > tiddler or a plugin and the plugin in turn contains multiple

[tw] Re: Codemirror Documentation

2014-10-01 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Danielo, TheDiveO, et al, I hope this hasn't been as frustrating for you as it has been for me but I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I got CodeMirror up and running in TW5.1.2 ... at least enough to get the idea of what is going on with it. It does act a bit differently than the

[tw] Screen layout as percentages

2014-10-01 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
I'm certain has brought this up before and I've probably just missed it but here goes anyway. Would it be possible to arrange the screen layout using percentages rather than pixels? I use three different computers looking at the same wiki and of course, the three have radically different screen

[tw] Re: Screen layout as percentages

2014-10-02 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Very Nice. Thanks Ton. -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@go

[tw] Re: Codemirror Documentation

2014-10-03 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Danielo, Do you know how to make keysnippets work with CodeMirror or how to map the CodeMirror keys to have the sort of "add bold marks before and after the selection" functionality? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscrib

[tw] Re: Codemirror Documentation

2014-10-04 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Danielo, I use your key routine all the time and have made it part of my set of standard tiddlywiki modifications. Among the functions I would like to see added to tiddlywiki is the search and replace like Eric had with the quick edit functions. I might not have bothered with CodeMirror at all

[tw] Re: Zoomin Hidden Menu Problem?

2014-10-06 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
Mal, et al I tried your solution and I found that it works as expected. I didn't observe an issue with classic view but then I largely live in Zoomin. I have settled in on a variation of your idea that seems to work well for me. I worried that the 84 px offset might upset other screen sizes so

[tw] Re: [TW5] codemirror TW5 mode support?

2014-10-06 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
For me, we would like to keep a CodeMirror plugin useful to the maximum number of people with very simple additions to allow the specialists to enhance it to meet their needs. There are or should be a lot more Tiddlywiki users than Tiddlywiki programmers. What I need is an enhanced text editor

[tw] Re: [TW5] codemirror TW5 mode support?

2014-10-06 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
> > I know I must be missing something here but to me seeing how the CM > package is complete as a standalone javascript plugin, is replacing the > main editor the only way to add CM capabilities to the TW5 file? I feel > once I fully understand why spawning another editor instance or wrapping

[tw] Troublesome Character

2014-10-08 Thread 'Stephen Kimmel' via TiddlyWiki
My Tiddlers include a reasonable amount of mathematics though not enough to justify including one of specialty addins. Things like Sulphur concentration <= 10 ppm I also store copies of emails in tiddlers and the email program uses the "<" and ">" to designate an email address. Just for clarit

[tw] Re: Troublesome Character

2014-10-08 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
BJ's workaround is probably what I was looking for. I missed where that command was documented. Whatever's answer would match up well with Danielo's keysnippets. Thanks for the answers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubsc

[tw] Re: [tw5] tab delimited content into tables?

2014-10-14 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I use Danielo's Keyboard snippets routine to do exactly that. I added this definition to the Keybindings file and it works like a charm. "alt+F1" : [ {"exp":"^", "modificators":"gm", "replace":"| "},{"exp":"\t", "modificators":"g", "replace":" | "},{"exp":"$", "modificators":"gm", "replace":" |

[tw] Re: [tw5] tab delimited content into tables?

2014-10-14 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > btw have you a idea how to install plugins and other stuff to tw5 > without a mouse? > import would work but you can't do selective importing right now. > > or i have missed someting. I can't you much with mouse free operation. "Mouse free" doesn't seem to be Tiddlywiki's strongest suit

[tw] Re: [tw5] tab delimited content into tables?

2014-10-15 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Let me know if that doesn't come through my company's firewall correctly and I'll try 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 it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr..

[tw] Bookmarklets in TiddlyDesktop

2014-10-20 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I just started playing with TiddlyDesktop and immediately discovered that there are some browser functions that I miss... such as the find function. That isn't quite enough to get me to abandon the desktop version completely. Another group of routines I use a good deal are the Tiddly Bookmarklet

[tw] Filtered Lists and Edit-text boxes

2014-10-21 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I'm certain this will turn out to be a snap for some of the experts here but I keep failing in my attempts. So... I would like to make a table from a list of tiddlers that were selected by my filter with the linked name of the tiddlers in the first column. In the second column I would like an e

[tw] Re: Filtered Lists and Edit-text boxes

2014-10-21 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
That was even simpler than I thought it would be. Thanks -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this

[tw] $edit-text tag="textarea" height

2014-10-22 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
What controls the height of the textarea when invoked by $edit-text tag="textarea"? I can control almost every aspect of it, border color, border style, width, etc, etc, with css but the minimum initial height seems to be fixed. I can adjust the height but it always starts off about four lines

[tw] Re: $edit-text tag="textarea" height

2014-10-22 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > Did you assigned a specific class to the text area? It works just fine for > me with height : 50px. I did indeed. I found that I can increase the size of the text area by assigning a height of 200px over-rides whatever the default is but going smaller does not. A specific example: <$e

[tw] Re: [TW5] Problem saving in TW5.1.4

2014-10-23 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I've seen this behaviour as well. I was working strictly locally at the time. The wiki appeared to hang up for a while and after it came back to normal started giving me that same error message whenever I tried to save or modify a tiddler. To rectify the problem, I downloaded a new copy of the

[tw] Re: $edit-text tag="textarea" height

2014-10-24 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
If you can't make it something that can be adjusted with CSS, then an attribute will certainly do the job. I think the CSS approach would be cleaner from my side but I can't speak for what is involved from the programming side. I would be happy with either. -- You received this message because

[tw] External Link from a viewed field

2014-10-27 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I'm sure this is an easy one but it has me stumped. I have a group of tiddlers with urls for external web pages stored in fields. Something like http://www.tcsnymarathon.org/ stored in field "url". I would like it to display as the text and act like an external link. So far all I get is the tex

[tw] Re: External Link from a viewed field

2014-10-27 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Obviously that works. Thanks. -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw

[tw] Re: Tw5 v5.0.10 plugin updates - visualeditor and editboost

2014-10-28 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
As I was picking up a copy of your extendable calendar, I noted that you had VisualEditor working with 5.1.4 as well. When I imported the files obviously associated with it, VisualEditor and $:/plugins/bj/visualeditor into my wiki, the editor didn'

[tw] Re: Tw5 v5.0.10 plugin updates - visualeditor and editboost

2014-10-28 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
That got it. Apparently it was the type that was the critical missing piece. Interestingly enough, I find you can switch back and forth between text/html and text/vnd.tiddlywiki to turn the editor on and off. Switching seems to do some goofy things. At least I can experiment with it. Thank yo

[tw] Context Search

2014-11-07 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Danielo, I'm having some difficulty with the revised Context Search plugin on the Braintest page. As it currently stands on the Braintest page, Context Search doesn't show up on the Advanced Search tiddler though there's a small blank rectangle where it should be. The Context Plugin page says J

[tw] Highlighting a transcluded tiddler

2014-11-07 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
In a few very specific cases, I would like the transcluded tiddler to be visually distinguished from the main tiddler. Perhaps inside a box, with a different color background, indented or perhaps as a blockquote. Is there some way to do that? -- You received this message because you are subscr

[tw] Re: Highlighting a transcluded tiddler

2014-11-07 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
That does exactly what I wanted. I had seen the documentation on the template tiddlers but I hadn't been able to work it out. Thanks -- 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

[tw] Re: [TW5] New icon for "save changes"

2014-11-13 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
The new Zoomin icon looks enough like the Save.Png icon that I can see it being confusing. I think the new home button is creepy looking. I'm changing that one back as soon as I can. And if anyone cares, the target symbol ... Close Others? ... doesn't say anything to me. Stephen -- You rece

[tw] Re: [TW5] - VisualEditor needed

2014-11-19 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I've gotten Visual Editor to work on mine but it wasn't easy. Two key steps, in particular, aren't obvious. 1) You have to have the ckeditor module. BJ suggested downloading it but I found that having the $:/plugin/bj/visualeditor/includelib tiddler read http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/

[tw] Re: Context Search

2014-11-19 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Danielo (or anyone else who knows the answer), The Context Search routine, which is essential as far as I'm concerned, appears to be blind to certain characters. If you use the form <$context term="!!!"/> in a tiddler that contains "Here are three exclamation points!!!", it seems it should cre

[tw] Re: Context Search

2014-11-19 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > try searching: "s!!!" and let me know if it works. > That works. I looked at the javascript and there's a line that reads: if(this.term && this.term.length>3){ which appears to mean that it won't search for things less than four characters long. Context search applied to the wiki as a who

[tw] Re: [TW5] 5.1.5 prerelease tag colors

2014-11-20 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I disagree with Tobias on one level. I find the black on orange easier to read than the white on orange. Still, he does raise an interesting point that I think should be considered. About 1 in 10 males is color-blind and in all probability someone on this forum is color-blind. For all I know, T

[tw] Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-20 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I use Tiddlywiki at work. I work with a lot of documents of different types. Some are legal documents and affidavits. Others are contracts and specifications. Some are well structured while others seem to ramble pointlessly. Some are lengthy while others are very short. I need to be able to f

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-20 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
\define regex-feature-header() (^!+.*)(?gmi) > <$list filter="[all[current]match:text]"> > {{!!title}} > > works far better than I expected so soon after I posted my issue. I am having some problem with the css code. It looks as though {{!!title}} takes the entry strictly as text. So

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-20 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > Hello remove the marks. That way the text will be wikified and you > will keep the hicherachy of the document. Then all you have to do is to > adapt the text size for h1..hn within the div TOC. Maybe I'm just exceptionally dense but making the code <$list filter="[all[current]match:t

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-21 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
That did it. Thanks. Now let me see where I can go with it. This sensitivity to carriage returns seems to be something we acquired when we moved from TWC to TW5. I wouldn't call it a feature but it does appear to be an intrinsic part of the design. As such, it is probably not a bug but an ongoi

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-21 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> Glad you get it working. Let us know if you end up with something pretty > and useful. > I don't know how pretty the results are or if anyone but me will find this useful but here is what I ended up with. As Danielo suggested: I added $:/core/modules/filters/match.js from http://eucaly-tw5

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-21 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > Curiosity has me ask if that's anywhere to be seen. ^_^ > Ask and ye shall receive: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6651245/My%20ToC.html Suggestions are welcome -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-22 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> I understand why these requests are framed in terms of implementing > sections but I'd really like more insight into the underlying needs. Is the > desire for tiddlers with long, hierarchically structured content because > they are easier to edit as a single run of text? Or easier to import?

[tw] Re: Table of Contents inside a tiddler

2014-11-22 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Tobias and Danielo, It does look nice but I had one additional thought on this. At the moment, in my version, the background color for the box is hard coded in the CSS. It would be nice if it could automatically use the appropriate color from the selected palette. That seems like it ought to be

[tw] Re: Plugins We Use

2014-11-22 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I use the five following plugins. The first three are by Danielo. - Context Search - Keyboard Snippets - Inline editable tables This one is by bj - Extendable Calendar And this one by eucaly - Match Filter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[tw] What first attracted you to Tiddlywiki?

2014-11-25 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I am especially interested in the "New User" experience and at the moment the specific question is what attracts people to Tiddlywiki in the first place. We were all new users once and while we may not be representative of the typical new user... I figure anyone who has even found this group is

[tw] Introducing New Users to Tiddlywiki

2014-11-27 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I assume all of us who have been with Tiddlywiki for some time have tried to introduce someone else to this product and if you're like me, you've met with various levels of success. Everyone I've shown Tiddlywiki to has been very impressed with what I could do with it but, so far, only a couple

[tw] sketch pad

2014-11-28 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Given that we have a new feature moratorium, I'm almost embarrassed to ask about this. But I figure someone has either already done it or it will take one of our more advanced users about five minutes to knock one out so I'm going to ask anyway. Not everything I take notes about lends itself to

[tw] Re: TW5 Philemon experiment

2014-12-01 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Just as a matter of curiosity, have you done a wiki on Luke and is it something you'd be willing to share? -- 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 tiddly

[tw] StoryView Selection

2014-12-02 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
One of the tools you can pick is the storyview. When you make that part of your sidebar tools and select it, you get a horizontal list of the three choices of storyview. In my configuration, the zoomin choice is off the right side of the screen. Is there some easy way to make the list vertical

[tw] Re: StoryView Selection

2014-12-02 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I'm working with Firefox 34 in a Windows 7 environment. And the web site acts differently which probably means I have customized something that changed the behavior. I'll build a new wiki using a new clean version of Empty and let you know the outcome. BTW, if you set the last four theme tweak

[tw] Re: StoryView Selection

2014-12-02 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Pretty much as expected, I was able to trace down a single command in a single tiddler that was creating my problem. There was a {display:inline;} in one of the CSS statements controlling drop-downs in an older version of a plugin that I was still using. As I updated from one version of the pro

[tw] Re: How to upload TiddlyWiki file to a website?

2014-12-03 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I store mine on DropBox. I know there are others who use Google Drive and others so I know it can be done. You should probably consider Tiddlyweb... http://tiddlyweb.com/... as well. My biggest problem using my wikis on various devices is the different screen configurations. Some of the screens

[tw] The slang meaning of "tiddlers"

2014-12-04 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Ah the joys of a multi-cultural background. For those of us who aren't British: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tiddlers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fro

[tw] Re: [TW5] - Tiddler Size

2014-12-04 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Tobias, Your routine seems to be listing the size, tiddler name, number of fields and sometimes type. My question is on the number of fields. Every entry I've checked seems to have one more Field listed than I count when I open the tiddler. For example: 74557 lights-diagram3.jpg, 3 fields, ima

[tw] Re: [TW5] - Tiddler Size

2014-12-04 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > Am I missing something? >> > > the (content-)type ;) > For my picture tiddler lights-diagram3.jpg, I get the listing: 74557 lights-diagram3.jpg, 3 fields, image/jpeg under the Info-Fields tab I'm showing two fields: title lights-diagram3.jpg type image/jpeg So it seems to me I have two f

[tw] Re: The slang meaning of "tiddlers"

2014-12-04 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I can guarantee that. As my son routinely says, "Properly viewed, everything is lewd." I simply put that up to amuse people. I was not suggesting we actually change the words we use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscrib

[tw] Re: link to Excel doc on local directory

2014-12-08 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Tobias can correct me if I am wrong but though you can link to external files, only certain types will execute inside your browser. I have linked to Microsoft Excel files but they have always started Excel external to the program and run the files there. -- You received this message because y

[tw] Re: link to Excel doc on local directory

2014-12-08 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Ben, This may seem a bit off topic but here is a copy of the line I use in my wiki to display a text file in my wiki. and here is another that displays a pdf file that is displayed: Both of those lines work for me. There are a couple things to be careful of here. 1) Be sure you are spell

[tw] Re: link to Excel doc on local directory

2014-12-08 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I've been playing with this some and I find this combination works on my Windows 7 machine. Nothing I tried with the users directories worked... presumably because of something that Windows does. View xls This causes a small window to pop up which tells me that "You have chosen to open: daily.

[tw] New User Experiment #1 (Long Post)

2014-12-09 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. How better to decide where to improve the documentation needs improvement than to watch some novice users try to do a few of the basics, see where they had problems and work on the documentation to ease them through their difficulties. So I have recr

[tw] Re: New User Experiment #1 (Long Post)

2014-12-09 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > And also a bit funny. Please keep making those experiments. Just curious, > G ended up using TW ? I'm afraid the answer is NO. It's too early to tell given that we had our session last weekend. At this point the outlook doesn't look good. However, if we had a ready made Recipe Book or som

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible "help system"

2014-12-11 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:28:43 PM UTC-6, Mat wrote: > > Apropos the current lab rat experiments > > prof. Kimmel is doing ;-) .. and apropos the absolutely incredible boost > we have in these matters since Jeremys mor

[tw] Re: $100 COMPETITION! - Make a poster for TW

2014-12-11 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
My immediate thought was that it was a Babel fish. Aren't Babel fish was yellow? (And if you don't know what a Babel fish is then you need to refer to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.) On further thought, its that European fish with the slang name tiddler. It's very nice. I can see us usin

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible "help system"

2014-12-13 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I think it's important to remember who are target audience is with the Empty file's GettingStarted tiddler. The audience for this tiddler is the new or inexperienced user. The experienced user doesn't need it and probably replaces it without even reading it. With that in mind, I have a few cri

[tw] Downloading the Empty.html

2014-12-13 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I went back and looked at the classic version of Tiddlywiki and I noticed that downloading the Empty.html file is handled differently than is being used in TW5. In classic, you download a zip file named Empty.Zip. In my browser, I then have the choice of either saving or opening the zip file wh

[tw] Re: $100 COMPETITION! - Make a poster for TW

2014-12-13 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I think that the poster graphic should be an integral part of the message. It can't be just a pretty picture; it must convey its own message as well. That's part of why I like the fish version better than the diamond. It has TiddlyWiki represented by the fish (I doubt that anyone on this side of

[tw] Re: Downloading the Empty.html

2014-12-13 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I have lost track of how many users I've dealt with who a) never move anything out their download folders and b) haven't figured out that they can sort the list of files by date. Now tell those folks to find a file they downloaded which has a gibberish name that they were never told. Their chan

[tw] Re: Downloading the Empty.html

2014-12-13 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I'm working Firefox 34, English version on Windows 7. I had to change a setting from the default to get it to ask me where I wanted to save the file and I could change the name it used when saving. Part of the point is that the user has to change settings to get the acceptable behaviour but man

[tw] Re: TiddlyWiki Hangout #72 on Tuesday 9th December at 4pm GMT

2014-12-14 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
The current hangout is on a working day during the middle of work-hours in North America. I would love to participate more frequently but as it stands I sort of owe it to my employer to be working then. As it stands the only times I can participate are while I'm on holiday. I suspect I am not th

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible "help system"

2014-12-16 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > I'm keen to get 5.1.6 out soon, so all this help is much appreciated, > This isn't really related to the topic but it is something I thought was worth mentioning when you go back to work on 5.1.6... By my count there are 171 "Missing" tiddlers. Some, I suspect, were never intended to be ti

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible "help system"

2014-12-16 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > How did you find those missing tiddlers under the missing tab? > In the Emptly.HTML there are no missing tiddlers but 'TiddlyWiki' is > linked too and does not exist. > I'm sorry if I mistyped that. I was looking at the TW 5.1.6 Full Prelease html file. Clearly it is a work in progress but

[tw] Re: [TW5] GettingStarted tiddler + flexible "help system"

2014-12-16 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Boy Rich. You've really gone to town with this issue. One caveat before we go too far down this trail. Some of the missing tiddlers were clearly intended to be actual tiddlers someday. Some of them may be accidents. DaveGifford or DavidJade were probably never intended to actually be tiddlers.

[tw] Macrocall isn't working

2014-12-17 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Let me rephrase that. Macrocall works fine in the full edition of Tiddlywiki. But if you generate an empty wiki and then import the ListMacro tiddler, you get nothing at all from the examples <$macrocall $name='wikitext-example-without-html' src='<> '/> Some key component isn't being copied to

[tw] Re: Macrocall isn't working

2014-12-17 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > The wikitext-example-without-html macro does not exist in empty.html but > is part of $:/editions/tw5.com/wikitext-macros at http://tiddlywiki.com/ > > Does that help? > > That's got it. This may be an area where the documentation could stand some improvement. Thanks, Ton. -- You received

[tw] New User Edition

2014-12-18 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
Rather than force the novice user to download either the entire Tiddlywiki home page or to generate an Empty Tiddlywiki that is little more than a blank sheet of paper, why don't we give them the option of generating a beginner's level edition? The idea is to give the new user what they need to

[tw] Re: New User Edition

2014-12-18 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
I confess. I'm new at Tiddlyspot. I messed up that one and put it in this one instead: http://newusersedition.tiddlyspot.com/ Sorry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from i

[tw] Re: New User Edition

2014-12-18 Thread &#x27;Stephen Kimmel&#x27; via TiddlyWiki
> > Call it "learning" by doing what a best-practice example did before you... > and extending on just that. > > Makes sense? > > Best wishes, Tobias. > I understand what you're saying and I agree. However, my primary focus with this is to lower the "barrier to entry" for the new-comers to Tidd

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