Springer, I understand what you are saying and would support a case insensitive free links.
- The Point I am trying to make is it is possible to use the rules of english, and I presume other languages to know when to choose the case and if one wants to change it. - [[Pragmatism|pragmatism]] I would use the alternate forms *in the tiddler in which they are named*, and I would choose the tiddler title according to its intended use, perhaps a tiddler defining "Pragmatism" would be capitalised because its a definition. - PRAGMATISM should be avoided for example as "shouting" but if you must, If we had an acronym I.B.M. even if at some time one may use [I.B.M.|IBM]] with the tiddler being IBM its simplest form that indicates it is an acronym. - The idea is where the author uses the term should be the final arbiter of the variation used, because that is where the context demands it. However since tiddlers may be used in their own right the title of a tiddler should be appropriate when that tiddler is opened on its own. - We also have the caption field for list based title representation alternatives, and the alias or uni-link plugin for other variations. I think if freelinks could also use the defined aliases we would be in nirvana. - Codes use such rules to decide how to name objects and variables like always lower case etc... for example I like the idea of converting fields values into variables and visa versa, so my practice is to use the field naming rules in naming my variables, no case except for cases like currentTiddler currentTab currentField etc... which I do not intent to represent in fields or tiddler titles. If you see an internally capitalised variable in my code there is no matching tiddlers or use for alternative cases and matching fields (because fields do not accept case). - Also if one expects a particular form of a word to be the most likely I would choose that, and only present it differently when needed, a simple title search can resolve this. - All my tasks and Project items can have any name I want it makes no difference, it just appears listed with the new name so I am free to change these free form tiddler titles, fixed links tend to be to tiddlers who's title is unlikely to change. Once an author adopts these standards they can break them but you rarely need to look for or search for the tiddle,r because you know the correct form to use, and then a copy title button helps. I too, am keen to have more "title independence" in tiddlywiki, using tags, and relink work well to allow tiddler renames, I have also designed a TiddlerSerial number approach. However of interest to me is I rarely if ever need to rename my titles and if I must it is typically on tiddlers whose name change is tolerated, it it appears in lists for another reason (tag or field). I am still trying to work out what it is in my practices, born from a career in IT and knowledge and Information management so I can pass it on to others. I hope this furthers the effective use of tiddlywiki. Regards Tony On Saturday, 2 May 2020 05:10:43 UTC+10, springer wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > On case-sensitivity for freelinks recognition, I think "English is your > friend" is ... misleading. Peter's suggestion, if we could make freelinking > (optionally) case-insensitive, freelinks would render virtual links to my > tiddler called "pragmatism" even though text in English requires > capitalizing pragmatism at the beginning of a word. Pragmatism speaks in > favor of (at least an option for) case-insensitivity. ;) > > (Typical use-case: pasting in text, needing not to fiddle with it in edit > mode. ... Meanwhile if I were to "fix" the problem by modifying freelinks > output to display-as-if-capitalized, that would capitalize where it > shouldn't, making English look like German. ;) ) > > Of course, case-insensitivity is only the most low-hanging fruit among > ways that freelinks would ideally variations (as specifiable in, say, an > alias field). > > -Springer > > On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 7:51:26 AM UTC-4, TonyM wrote: >> >> Peter, >> >> *Is there a way to make them NOT case sensitive? *good idea for an option >> >> Keep in mind if tiddlers are lower case you can display them with caps, >> title and sentence case if you want. Especially if you want it to be more >> generic consider tiddlers that define a fragment or phrase use lower case. >> If something is clearly a title use the correct case eg Microsoft not >> microsoft. English is your friend. >> >>> >>> -- 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/bb30a494-99fb-4fc3-8ad6-4eea98416f0a%40googlegroups.com.
