On Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 4:06:04 AM UTC-7, Tejasvi S Tomar wrote: > > Hi there! I am fortunate enough to discover TiddlyWiki and Zettlekasten > well before committing to a specific note-taking method. Since markdown is > relatively limited and lacks a standard, I have been using reST for taking > notes instead. So my question is, is there an equivalent plugin for RST > which is as functional as the markdown counterpart? >
There is *currently* no support for parsing RST-formatted content. However, since everything in TiddlyWiki is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript, it should be *possible* to create such a plugin. After a quick look, I found this: https://github.com/thoward/rst2html which converts RST content into HTML. TiddlyWiki already handles rendering of HTML content, so it shouldn't be *too* hard to take a tiddler containing RST content with type="text/x-rst" (the "unofficial official" MIME type for RST) and pass it through a plugin library such as the above "rst2html", and then render the resulting HTML output. However, this is not trivial, and would require a TiddlyWiki technical expert to implement the various parts and glue it all together. Unfortunately, while I can envision the possibility, I personally have *no* experience in implementing alternative parser plugins for the TWCore, so this would have to be a project for one of the other TiddlyWiki "wizards" out there. Note that, even if this was done, there would still be some issues with the results. For example: * would it be possible to create links to other tiddlers from within RST-formatted content? * similarly, could TW transclusions be used? * and, what about TW macro definitions (either TWCore or custom-written macros)? I suspect that, with some additional effort, at least some of the above issues could be addressed once the basic parsing and rendering of RST-to-HTML is working. All in all, this seems like an interesting project for someone with the right skill set, but it would probably be a significant investment of time and effort, so there would need to be a strong motivation for doing the work and maintaining the results. Since you are the first person to ask about support for RST-formatted content, I suspect that the demand for such functionality is currently limited in the TiddlyVerse. -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools.com: "Small Tools for Big Ideas!" (tm) InsideTiddlyWiki - http://TiddlyTools.com/InsideTW -- 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/aa9aedec-ddba-4e24-8e09-4b545c818ef1o%40googlegroups.com.
