that did it! A separate 'addsuffix' for each space. Not sure I would have 
come up with that. Thanks, again!

Now to set up blanks for the other 10 fields... 

On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 1:27:02 PM UTC-6 Mark S. wrote:

> Just add them with addsuffix
>
> $basetitle={{{ [{!!firstname}addsuffix[ ]addsuffix{!!middlename}addsuffix[ 
> ]addsuffix{!!lastname}] }}} ...
>
> In case Google breaks these lines, the new, added *addsuffix* operators 
> have a space inside them.
> On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 11:14:15 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Thank you sir! I have now officially tried 175 different combinations of 
>> brackets and action-options! lol
>>
>> I had not seen the addsuffix before. I just tried several variations of 
>> it, all of which break everything when I attempt to add spaces between 
>> names. Is there a simple/easy way of accomplishing this? Worst case I will 
>> leave it as is and the names will be squished (FirstMiddleLast) but spaces 
>> would be better, as long as it does not involve trigonometry...
>>
>> On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 12:45:11 PM UTC-6 Mark S. wrote:
>>
>>> You don't mention which approach you are using to create the tiddler. 
>>> But if it were action-createtiddler, then your $basetitle attribute might 
>>> look like this:
>>>
>>> ... $basetitle={{{ 
>>> [{!!firstname}addsuffix{!!middlename}addsuffix{!!lastname}] }}} ...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 10:32:32 AM UTC-8 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm experimenting. So far I have been able to take input from three 
>>>> fields, assign them to $:/state... and then press a button which creates a 
>>>> new tiddler. The new tiddler contains three fields w/ the content I 
>>>> originally entered as values.
>>>>
>>>> But how can I merge these three fields and make *that* the title of the 
>>>> new tiddler?
>>>>
>>>> This is the part that has so far eluded me...
>>>>
>>>> Assume the fields are firstname, middlename, lastname...
>>>>
>>>

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