You can't use a parameter with spaces in the name (e.g., you can't use "now format" as a parameter). You also can't create field names with spaces in them.
Substituting hyphens for spaces, and a few other changes, this might be closer to what you want: \define NEW-TIDDLER(now-format:"XXX" tags:"XXX" tags-show:"XXX" text:"XXX" comment:"XXX") <div style="float:left;"><$button><$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now $now-format$>> tags="""$tags$""" tags-show="""$tags-show$""" text="""$text$""" comment="""$comment$"""/><span style="color:blue;">''BUTTON-NAME-HERE''</span></$button></div> \end <<NEW-TIDDLER now-format:"XXX" tags:"XXX" tags show:"XXX" text:"XXX" comment:"XXX" ">> On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 8:50:45 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about creating a macro. > https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Macros%2520in%2520WikiText.html > > I have to make a lot of buttons in my wiki and I have this code for a > button for creating a new tiddler; (It works fine.) > > `<div style="float:left;"><$button><$action-sendmessage > $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now format:"TITLE-TIDDLER-HERE">> > tags="TAG-NAME-HERE" tags show="TAG-NAME-HERE" text="TEXT-HERE" > comment="FIELD-COMMENT-HERE"/><span > style="color:blue;">''BUTTON-NAME-HERE''</span></$button></div>` > > How do I convert the above code into a macro? > > This is my attempt, but I can't get it done: > > `\define NEW-TIDDLER(now format:"XXX" > tags:"XXX" tags show:"XXX" text:"XXX" comment:"XXX") > <div style="float:left;"><$button><$action-sendmessage > $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<$now format:$>> $tags$ $tags show$ $text$ > $comment$/><span > style="color:blue;">''BUTTON-NAME-HERE''</span></$button></div> > \end > > <<NEW-TIDDLER > now format:"XXX" > tags:"XXX" > tags show:"XXX" > text:"XXX" > comment:"XXX" > ">>` > > Thank you, > > > > -- 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/4d191a48-d9d9-444d-b798-651e6285727en%40googlegroups.com.
