I'm using TW to prototype a set of learning aids for machine steno,
(and trying to get through my first class in the process!). There are
thousands of 'outlines' for words, phrases, etc., and memorizable
tables can be put to good use, and I need some tools to help populate
tidlers with content.
In a line of steno, characters can only appear in one position,
“STKPWHRAO*EUFRPBLGTSDZ”, the letters to the left of the ’A’, are
known as the ’initial consonants’, those after the ’U’ are the final
consonants. There is a ’typewritten’ short hand to represent a series
of lines, (strokes, in the lingo), that goes as follows: ’/’ - for the
start of a new stroke followed by any of the characters used in the
stroke with these hints, to make the ’outline’, unique; if no initial
consonant is in the outline, a hyphen acts as a placeholder for their
absence (unless a vowel is present, in which case it is not needed),
if only initial consonants are present, then they are followed by a
hyphen so you can tel that they are initial. Here is an example:
/THEUS /S- /A /DAUG /-FPLT — for “This is a dog.”
To make a table, I need to take all the ("word/phrase", "outline")
pairs destined for the table, and use them to populate the rows in a |
Word/Phrase|Stroke|h table. where the stroke column contains a string
that displays what would appear on the steno tape, i.e. the outline
uncompress, e.g. for ("to be", "\TAO*B"), the row generated will be:
|to be| T     AO*   B|
(I need the non-breaking space to get things to display correctly for
memorize).
So, I need a way to generate all the table rows for a tiddler form a
hidden, or at least, out of sight text chunk that can be retrieved and
indexed through, with a new 2 column row created for each "line", the
first value is placed in the row unchanged, and the 2 value is
expanded as in the example above.
So, these are my questions (by category).
Where to put these "text chunks"?
in the tiddler?
in another tiddler?
How to keep them hidden?
commented out?
some TW command/technique I don't know?
How to retrieve the "text chunk"?
Slices? how would I name them?
Hidden tables, retrieved and indexed?
I think I come across a a plugin like that.
How to process what is retrieved?
javascript obviously, but do I generate the table once, each time
the tiddler is opened,
whenever the text chunk is changed, via an update button?
Ideas?
Tom Fetherston
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