Better late than never: thanks a lot for the help! 😊

On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 3:48:26 PM UTC+1 Eric Shulman wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 5:33:22 AM UTC-8 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to do something I thought would be easy, but it turned out 
>> not to be: I want to color text on a tiddler with a color stored in a 
>> field. The naive solution would look like: (color_field has the value 
>> "blue")
>> @@color:{{!!color_field}};
>> bla
>> @@
>>
>
> While it seems like a reasonable usage, this is another instance where you 
> can't directly combine different kinds of wiki syntax.  In the above 
> example, the TWCore parser would first have to replace {{!!color_field}} 
> with it's value (e.g., "blue"), and then perform a *second* parsing 
> action to process the resulting @@color:blue; bla @@ syntax.
>
> Fortunately, there is a way to achieve the results you want, by using an 
> HTML <span> instead of "@@", where the span has a style attribute that is 
> constructed using "filtered transclusion", like this:
>
> <span style={{{ [[color:]addsuffix{!!color_field}] }}}>
> bla
> </span>
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>

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