Anne-Laure, Since I do not YET follow you, what kind of content are you authorig,?, it can make quite a difference how to make use of TiddlyWiki. What is bothering you when writing longer form content?
I have a view on how authors should write with a view to long term viability, I can share if appropriate, although I am no expert. On Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 11:54:05 AM UTC+10, Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote: > > I'm curious - do people actually write straight into TW for long texts? > How come this hasn't been much of an issue for everyone else? Or is it just > that most people take quick notes / bullet points and never feel the need > to write or paste very long articles? > > Given I build logic and relationships or features and functions into my tiddlywiki, that is I abstract, and extract concepts and relationships as I go, I often have shorter tiddlywiki content and I am fine with the wiki text editor, although I want the aforementioned dot-paragraph. You may find pasting found content as HTML and then copy out snipits and paste into your authored tiddlers as needed, in effect capture your references and related content, and cherry pick it as needed (Copy paste/markup}, consciously using your choice of markup in your content rather than adopting that of the original source. I have taken recently on my Desktop tiddlywiki with a wide screen to using the editors preview to show the Output at the same time as a I type wiki text, even to the point of adding blank lines to the wiki text to line it up with the rendered content on the right. You can use <!-- comments --> to write author notes not visible in the content, and these are searchable. Another trick on a multi-screen computer is to open a tiddler in a new window, then edit it in the main window, then save and keep editing the rendered result is available in the new window. This is also a good trick when editing a compound tiddler, one that links to many others, because when you click a link of a compound tiddler in a new window, that tiddler opens in the main wiki window, I think of this as a remote control. When doing training and taking notes in class, I do like to type long tiddlers and to regularly save and reopen becomes annoying, so I have save and continue editing button, or even edit a different tiddler with the edit-text widget so every keystroke is saved, and I depend on undo and redo for typos. The Visual Editor which writes html tiddlers WYSIWYG (That can include widgets) based on ckeditor (has local computer dependance) may suit some short article writers, but someone writing a book may stick with wikitext because of its brevity and worry about overall appearance towards the end of the writing process. There are full screen editor modes, but I would like to see a full screen edit and Preview mode, or perhaps try with David Gifford's new edition? Buttons for the Edit Toolbar - Save & Close (Done & Close) - Cancel & Close (Discard & Close) - Save & Keep Open (Done & Reopen) source https://tid.li/tw5/plugins.html tags title $:/plugins/telmiger/EditButtons *Visual Editor* source https://github.com/buggyj/TW5-tools title $:/plugins/bj/visualeditor Regards Tony -- 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/c58bd4ef-0a64-430c-b0ee-b1e9bf0f6b38%40googlegroups.com.
