Thanks, this worked! ...But only when I also put a newline immediately inside the <p> and </p> tags. Go figure.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 11:06:28 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: > > Soren, > > Did you try using the <p> tags themself? > > Most html is past through. > > I feel your pain, I was using and modifying previous mailto implementation > and something was so fragile I have up after hours of frustration each time. > > Regards > Tony > > On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 7:52:44 AM UTC+10, Soren Bjornstad wrote: >> >> I'm trying to implement a mailto: based mail-merge in TiddlyWiki and am >> 95% of the way there borrowing the code provided in this thread: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/tiddlywiki$20mail$20merge|sort:relevance/tiddlywiki/wNpULbptm4w/h3He4gbGAwAJ >> >> However, the tiddlerencoded macro there seems to omit all paragraph >> breaks from the tiddler containing the email message when performing URL >> encoding (it doesn't insert %0A, or anything else, to represent a newline >> in the URL-encoded string where they are in the tiddler). It's kind of hard >> to write a non-trivial email without using any paragraph breaks, so this is >> a big problem! Is there any way I can make it keep them? I don't mind >> editing the tiddler containing the message, but I can't find any markup >> that will generate a paragraph break. If I write <br> at the end of a >> paragraph, it puts in *one* newline, but I need two for a proper >> paragraph break, and if I put more than one <br>, TiddlyWiki renders it as >> an extra newline, but the URL-encoding version only includes a single %0A. >> >> I did modify the macro a little bit, so as to allow field references >> within the email tiddler (basically, I just added the || before >> $template$). The original macro didn't include newlines either, so this >> doesn't seem to be the fault of my modification. Here's what I have >> currently: >> \define tiddlerencoded(template) >> <$wikify name="mytext" text="{{||$template$}}"> >> <$list filter="[<mytext>encodeuri[]]" variable="mywikifiedtext"> >> <$text text=<<mywikifiedtext>>/> >> </$list> >> </$wikify> >> \end >> >> Example invocation: <<tiddlerencoded EmailTemplateTest>> -- where >> EmailTemplateTest is any tiddler containing newlines. >> >> I tried changing the type of EmailTemplateTest to text/plain, and that >> made the paragraph breaks show up properly, but then the TextReferences in >> it don't get replaced, which I need to be able to do. >> > -- 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/e25b9c57-7a76-4715-842b-ef74429b0591%40googlegroups.com.
