Thanks Tony. Good advice. That's definitely something I've been wanting to
consider to help me learn.
I look forward to your example.
Damon
On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 4:19:51 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote:
>
> Damon,
>
> Eric solution makes use of the existing TOC macos. Personally however I
> would encourage people consider building there own TOC and develop and
> understanding of Recursive macros. Because once you learn these building
> custom TOC processes are much easier.
>
> For example computing other information about each member in the TOC,
> getting icons and color from the default fields programmatically rather
> than needing to edit the caption field for every member.
>
> I will share a single tiddler example soon, in a new thread.
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
>
> On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 8:17:34 AM UTC+11, Damon Pritchett wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Eric!
>>
>> That worked beautifully and just as I wanted! I had no idea you could do
>> that. Is that the only field where that could work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Damon
>>
>> On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 1:58:11 PM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote:
>>>
>>> On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 10:33:12 AM UTC-8, Damon Pritchett wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have another question for ya'll. Is it possible to color certain
>>>> table of contents entries based on a tiddler field? If so, does this also
>>>> apply to the tocP macro? Here's my scenario. I have a collection of
>>>> images.
>>>> Some of these images are only downloaded and some of them I own hard
>>>> copies
>>>> of. Each image has its own tiddler with a lengthy description. I want to
>>>> have the images I own show up as a different color in my table of contents.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it is possible. Here's how:
>>>
>>> By default, the items in a TOC display use the *title* of each tiddler.
>>> However, if you define a *caption* field for a tiddler, the TOC will use
>>> that text instead. This is most often used to bypass the CamelCase name of
>>> the tiddler (e..g, "Hello there", instead of "HelloThere") or to provide a
>>> longer, more prosaic alternative (e.g, "Greetings and Felicitations!").
>>>
>>> However, the caption text can also contain other wiki syntax, such as
>>> the "@@" styling syntax, which lets you specify CSS classnames or inline
>>> styles. For example, suppose you want a TOC item to be displayed using red
>>> text. To do this, you could write the following in the caption field for
>>> that tiddler:
>>> @@color:red; Text goes here@@
>>>
>>> Alternatively, for more "global" control over the appearance, you could
>>> use a CSS classname (e.g., "myTOC"), like this:
>>> 1) First, define a stylesheet tiddler (tagged with $:/tags/Stylesheet),
>>> containing
>>> .myTOC { color:red; }
>>> 2) Then, in the caption field of the desired TOC item, write:
>>> @@.myTOC Text goes here@@
>>>
>>> The advantage of the classname method is that you then have centralized
>>> control over the styling for *all* similar TOC items, without having to
>>> separately re-edit the caption entries of each item. Thus, if you decide
>>> to change the color, or add other CSS attributes, you only have to change
>>> the stylesheet tiddler. For example:
>>> .myTOC { color:green; font-size:150%; border:1px solid; }
>>>
>>> enjoy,
>>> -e
>>> Eric Shulman
>>> TiddlyTools: "Small Tools for Big Ideas!" (tm)
>>> InsideTiddlyWiki - http://www.TiddlyTools.com/InsideTW
>>>
>>
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