On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 9:40:47 AM UTC-7, Adithya B M wrote:
>
> Can you suggest any better way to extract the a "excerpt" of a tiddler?
> I found this get_extract function searching this forum but it kind of
> breaks the text by eating the formatting html. I just want plaintext of the
> first 140 characters or so with non-relevant characters replaced by spaces
> (and multiple spaces trimmed to one).
>
Perhaps if you wikify the *entire* tiddler text first, and then take the
first 140 characters from that, you will avoid "eating the formatting".
\define get_description()
<$wikify name="out" text={{{ [<currentTiddler>get[text]] }}}>
<$vars extract={{{ [<out>split[]first[140]join[]] }}}>
<$text text={{{ [<currentTiddler>get[description]else<extract>] }}} />
</$vars>
</$wikify>
\end
-e
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