Cheers, fellow Tiddlywikers (does such a word even exist?). I spent last few days on reading about TW and exploring its abilities, all that interrupted by frequent gasps of astonishment. TW presumably is what I've been looking for but, on the other hand, it may be just slightly too much to make most of it--therefore my post here.
What I am looking, in fact, is a static site generator. I know TW is capable of generating static html files and I even managed to generate one or two such files. Even more--I dabbled with files and managed to adjust it to my liking. My goal is to generate many static html files, which could then be seasoned with a class-less CSS. HTML needs to simple, html -> body -> some lists, maybe few paragraphs. There will be like tens or hundreds of such files, each file would represent a single entity of a specific object. While these objects are not directly associated to each other, they share the underlying model and taxonomy. I would also need to generate aggregates i.e. lists displaying all entities meeting certain criterias. Say, a database of cars, and I would like then to view all cars of selected make or all cars with diesel engine. I could store all the data in CSV file and make a simple bash script to generate static files. I made so many times in the past and while it works, the downside is that after a while I forget how one uses the toolchain I came up with so tend to recreate it from the scratch. As fun as it is, with years passing by and myself getting older, I have now no time for such pasttimes. I am looking for a solution that would allow me to extend the database, regenerate the output without to much entry barrier after a month or two. Now, TW seems to be a perfect tool for that. It allows for creating flexible taxonomies and data models (either through tags or fields); use of list widget is only limited by one's creativity and imagination. On the other hand--it offers so much more and is so complex, I didn't fully manage to create a html template that would output JUST a doctype, h1 element followed by wikified text of a tiddler. For some reason, right after body element there is a dangling p element that can't find a way to remove. I spent whole today's evening to have TW generate the output as I wanted to have--to no avail. After this long-winded introduction, two questions: 1. am I looking at the right tool here? Or you'd rather recommend something less robust and powerful, from the lack of better terms? I don't care about all JS UI features TW offers so maybe I am stripping away too much of the features to make the effort worthwhile. 2. would someone mind providing me a tip or two as to how one creates a bare-bone html output of a tiddler? I followed some of the guides, in particular guide related to generating static output in which the author also provides a meaningful insight as to how tinker with ViewTemplate to adjust it for one's need. I followed it but, as I said, the results, while close, are not perfect. Apologies for lack of brevity. Most kind regards, Lukasz -- 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/fe22e735-cd32-4d9f-bf0d-80d4dd57c9d6n%40googlegroups.com.
