TonyK Not exactly and it will not honor simple wiki text. Its more uses full for code segments etc...
I have used that when pasting say email content into my notes and is great for my own use, but not really for publishing. Regards Tony On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 8:31:21 PM UTC+10, Tony K wrote: > > isn't it the purpose of ? > """ > > > > On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 5:02:24 AM UTC+3, TonyM wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> I just found a solution to an issue which bugs a lot of new and >> experienced users alike, many come to be happy by adapting to it, however >> when they bring text in from elsewhere the issue rears its head again. >> >> *Problem:* Consider Source Text as follows in a tiddler >> line a >> >> line b >> line c >> >> >> Line d >> >> Gets displayed as >> line a >> >> line b line c >> >> Line d >> That is the author or source of text requires two enters resulting in a >> blank line before it is treated as a new paragraph, other wise the line is >> appended to the previous line. >> >> See also that the source text has two line between line c and line b, yet >> rendering collapses this to one line, this will not change with this >> solution >> >> Be aware there are good reasons for this behaviour and attempts at fixing >> it have tended to be cumbersome. >> >> As I posted in this thread Preserving paragraphs when pasting into TW >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/TX1VfRRFmhE/qzhN7TePBQAJ> >> (answer >> reproduced here) I think I have found a useful solution that can be applied >> in a few different ways. >> >> >> - This solution also allows wikitext markup to be applied to pasted >> text, allowing subsequent markup. >> >> *Background 1st solution* >> If you wrap a block of text in a section or other html blocks and use a >> style to use the same white spacing as pre you will get text that behaves >> like was intended in the source text. >> Using a blank line after the first html tag ensures any wikitext markup >> is honored. >> >> <section style="white-space: pre;"> >> blank line here >> !Marked >> >> Your pasted text Wikitext markup if desired >> </section> >> >> *2nd Solution* >> Of course you can create a css class eg "retain" and apply it like this >> as well (define in a tiddler tagged $:/tags/Stylesheet >> eg >> .retain { white-space: pre; } >> >> >> @@.retain >> ;No Blank line needed for wiki text >> Some text >> >> some more text >> @@ >> You can leave off the closing "@@" with no apparent ill effect >> >> >> - The above is honored when transcluding this tidder >> >> *3rd Solution* >> >> There may be better ways but if on a given tiddler you wish to have a >> class applied to the whole content create a class field and give it the >> value of the class in the following format. >> >> class=classname and the whole tiddler content will have class applied >> >> However the class is applied at the very last moment, so the preview >> window does not apply it, and the rendered tiddler is wrapped in one or >> more `<p>` tags. >> So let us define a class that uses the P selector to target the resulting >> paragraphs >> .keep P { white-space: pre; border: 2px solid blue; } >> >> and set the class field to keep >> >> So the whole tiddler will honor this formatting, good for pasted content >> with line breaks considered paragraph breaks, and still permits wikitext. >> >> - In this case unlike 1st and 2nd solutions this class is not honored >> in transclusions, which may a be good or bad >> - Use this to fix it, ie add the retain class to the section >> >> @@.retain {{transcluded}}@@ >> >> *In closing* >> Some of us may consider this a substantial improvement in usability >> others will see little or no value. >> >> - What do you think? >> - Have you other ideas? >> - Feedback please >> >> Regards >> Tony(m) >> >> -- 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/e4706b01-f26a-4648-9387-ca04dbf284e5%40googlegroups.com.
