I discovered TiddlyWiki recently and think it is really a GREAT piece
of software. Thanks!
"Out of the box" there is only a minor glitch for German users which
has to do with the German language: The hyphen (or minus sign) is
treated as lower case letter in WikiWords.
The problem is that in the German language
* nouns are written starting with an upper case letter
AND
* semantically connected nouns are typically written without a space
in between - e.g. 'Motorboot' (for motor boat).
As soon as three or more nouns are connected like this - e.g.
'Motorboothafen' (for motor boat harbour) - this quickly becomes
unreadable. So it is common practice to insert a hyphen and write such
words as Motorboot-Hafen (typically not separating all words with a
hyphen but only such that are 'semantically' less connected).
Now, classifying the '-' as lower case letter turns the above in a
WikiWord, i.e. it would have to be escaped with ~.
I'm aware that there is a plugin to disable selected words as
WikiWords, but it is also easy to fix the behaviour locally by
changing the definition of
lowerLetter: "[a-z0-9_\\-\u00df-\u00ff\u0151\u0171]"
to
lowerLetter: "[a-z0-9_\u00df-\u00ff\u0151\u0171]"
in config.textprimitives. (For all I can see this will not have any
side effects - maybe some one can confirm this?)
As a feature request for future TiddlyWiki releases I suggest to
implement a user preference, e.g. in checkbox style:
[ ] do NOT treat '-' as lower case letter in WikiWords
Regards, MW
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