Thank you so much, works perfectly!
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 8:10:04 PM UTC, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:21:39 PM UTC-7, si wrote:
>>
>> I have tiddlers for books with the title of the book stored in a field
>> called "book-title", and I want to create a link to the pdf of the book.
>> For example say I have a tiddler containing the field
>> "book-title=[[Oliver Twist]]".
>> I want to create a template to generate a link of the form "[ext[Oliver
>> Twist|.\books\Oliver Twist.pdf]]".
>> I have tried "[ext[{{!!book-title}}|.\books\{{!!book-title}}.pdf]]" but
>> this doesn't work.
>>
>
> In order to construct wikitext syntax that inserts a value from a field,
> you first need to create a macro definition, like this:
> \define book-link(title) [ext[$(title)$|.\books\$(title)$.pdf]]
>
> Then, to use it, you would write:
> <$vars title={{!!book-title}}><<book-link>></$vars>
>
> Let me know how it goes...
>
> enjoy,
> -e
> Eric Shulman
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