Folks, Given Wikipedia goes beyond a single edit field and constructs boxes tabs and sections It would make sense to build a tiddler view template for this purpose. Add to that some features to copy to clipboard the result.
Tiddlywiki's templating options are mature and feature rich. You could make a template that looks almost identical to a wikipedia page, at least the content view, then you could have a "local to tiddlywiki talk or notes tab". Another approach I use as Thomas points out is to use copy a selection as HTML and paste the HTML into a tiddler, one advantage being the links can be retained if you set a value for the domain the relative references refer to. HTML can be parsed and the html tags used to programaticaly extract data as well. Regards Tony On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 8:47:46 AM UTC+10, Joshua Fontany wrote: > > https://github.com/jeffrey4l/pandoc-addons/blob/master/md2tid.lua > > https://github.com/tonywoode/unslack/blob/master/mdToTiddly.js > > https://github.com/tonywoode/unslack/blob/master/tiddlyToMd.js > > Found these scripts on github. If I poke around, I might be able to make a > button that converts a type:text/markdown tiddler to a > type:text/vnd.tiddlywiki tidder (&/or vice versa). I am also aiming to > import Wikipedia articles in order to re-mark them up with internal TW > links. > > Best, > Joshua Fontany > > On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 9:34:57 AM UTC-7 Mark S. wrote: > >> With 5.1.22 the support for Markdown is greatly improved and allows some >> Wikitext. >> >> The problem with Wikipedia, is that it uses a lot of floating boxes and >> complicated CSS to get it's look. Getting that look into TW wouldn't be >> easy, no matter what approach you used. But grabbing the essence of a page >> isn't too hard. >> >> Using the extension copycat, you can copy the markdown text of an >> article, and paste it into a markdown tiddler. It's fast, and editable, and >> communicates the main features of the original page. The styling with >> floating images and boxes, that's going to be different. >> >> There seems to be a lot of denial in the TW community re the status of >> Wikitext vs. markdown. These conversations remind me (showing my age) of >> all those people who maintained that beta was better than VHS. It doesn't >> matter which is better, it matters which is supported and maintainable. >> Markdown has won, for better or worse. There is lots of support for it >> everywhere. TW is only supported inside of the TW project. >> >> >> >> On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 8:22:30 AM UTC-7, Diego Mesa wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the response bimlas! >>> >>> Im not so much interested in completeness, as I am being able to edit my >>> local copies of wikipedia articles. I still think integrating tw into >>> pandoc is the way to go >>> >>> On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 7:08:48 AM UTC-5, bimlas wrote: >>>> >>>> Forgot to mention how to save a webpage as a PDF: >>>> https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-save-a-webpage-as-a-pdf/ >>>> >>> -- 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/914d3ca8-9c42-4dfb-a54a-5fd35acf4b39o%40googlegroups.com.
