Thanks so much Tony, I didn't think of using a tool that would preserve the HTML formatting. I'll give that a try. I honestly can't write long-form content in TiddlyWiki. For short notes, it's fine. But when I write long notes (thousands of words), the writing experience is not comfortable. So I write in Roam or Google Docs, but when I paste these into TiddlyWiki the formatting is all gone and it's quite tedious to add the paragraphs back.
On Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 2:35:15 AM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: > > Anne-Laure. > > This becomes an issue for all tiddlywiki users eventually for many when > typing, or in your case importing text. I believe it is a product of the > way wikitext need to cohabit with widgets and other code. I and mario were > recently looking at "dot paragraphs" where placing a period at the > beginning of a line would turn it into a paragraph `<p>` when rendered. I > was about to revisit where we were on this. With a line based Editor > toolbar button to add a period at the beginning of every line in > highlighted text, This method can be used to rapidly transform imported > text, that comes in the forms of lines rather than paragraphs when pasted. > It has the advantage of also collapsing extra blank lines. > > I believe there may be options in the tools one uses to copy and paste > that will use double line breaks when pasting a paragraph. > > Depending on your final use of the text you capture from elsewhere and > whether you intend to edit it. you can get a browser tool to copy as html > from the source, and paste this html it tiddlywiki thus retaining much of > its original structure. > > We could also make an editor toolbar button that wraps every (all or > selected) lines in `<p>` but these will remain in the text in edit mode. > > Try these things and let us know if you want to explore this in more > detail. > > Regards > tony > > > On Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 10:26:44 AM UTC+10, Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote: >> >> Hey everyone! >> >> I often have to paste long content from other sources (Google Doc, Roam, >> email) into TW and it just lumps everything together. No more paragraphs, >> formatting or anything, just a massive blob of text. >> >> Is there a way to fix this? >> >> Thank you! >> Anne-Laure. >> > -- 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/09690b97-2af5-43e6-9a75-d696a79bfbca%40googlegroups.com.
