Tom, This may be more simple than you think, depending of course how
much work you have to do.  I have generated a working steno memorize
table for you using TiddlyWiki markup as below:

http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com/#StenoTableMemorize

Just click edit>> on the yellow header to see the code.
Click <<back on the yellow header to return the the memorize table
group where you can see more examples and other links including how to
do this in HTML.

Let us know if this helps.

Morris Gray
http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com
A TiddlyWiki help file for beginners





On Oct 11, 1:16 am, tfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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|&#160;T&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;AO*&#160;&#160;&#160;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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