Mat, Yes, it matters that my subject-matter is dense with cross-references among technical terms (that are still ordinary-language-like in their presentation).
Yes, having foo throughout the text field converted to [[foo]] on save (for all of a specified class of tiddler titles, and their aliases) would accomplish *most* of what I need. When I add a new term, though, that kind of simple conversion still wouldn't retrofit existing tiddlers to show links to the new one,... unless there were a wide search-replace operation, across all relevant tiddlers, every time a tiddler title or alias is edited. That strikes me as too burdensome on the system. Assuming a "virtual" solution like Checkett's RedirectMacro is not possible, the ideal plugin (or update to core, to be really ambitious) might allow two things: (1) on save tiddler (or tiddler within some class): scan titles and alias names of existing tiddlers (non-system tidddlers, in my case), and substitute so as to render links as available. (2) as needed: offer a single macro/button function that scans a subset of tiddlers (by default, all non-system tiddlers) for unmarked potential-link text (unbracketed strings that match tiddler titles and aliases), and furnish appropriate links throughout. -Springer -Springer On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 12:57:14 PM UTC-5, Mat wrote: > > For TWC(!) I believe Tobias' made a much improved version but which name > I've now forgotten. AutoLink or some such. It was in deed really cool but I > found that it would only be practical if the wiki was dedicated to quite > narrow topics. Many of my wikis are pretty broad in scope (e.g "family > wiki", "my notes", "workwiki" etc). > > I'm not quite sure why/if this exact solution is not possible in TW5 but I > can see how something similar could be made by having words *exchanged* > for linked words, i.e foo becomes [[foo]] upon saving. I believe there are > methods for this in TW5. > > <:-) > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e27894bd-bf05-4f9f-b0a9-f626c5519ea9%40googlegroups.com.
