Hah, exactly what I was looking for! Never seen that one before. Thanks. On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 5:42:50 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> Have you tried using the <$codeblock> widget? > > > > On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 11:00:48 PM UTC+1 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > >> In my upcoming TiddlyWiki book >> <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/NIJQLBLwVHI>, I have a number >> of snippets where I'd like to present side-by-side wikitext and rendered >> output. I've accomplished this by creating a template that displays two >> divs with 50% width, the contents of each div transcluding a different >> template in turn: a template that displays the current tiddler in block >> mode, and a template that displays the wikitext of the current tiddler. >> >> The trick is in the wikitext template: I can't figure out how to get the >> built-in highlight.js syntax highlighter ($:/plugins/tiddlywiki/highlight) >> to apply to the wikitext being dynamically transcluded in this way. (The >> *HTML* language does a good enough job on wikitext that it's very >> helpful to have it.) The obvious methods like using a code fence fail since >> they literally display the transclusion syntax "{{!!text}}" or >> "<<currentTiddler>>" instead of the result of that transclusion. Currently >> my best attempt is the following: >> >> <pre class="html hljs xml"><code><$text text={{!!text}}/></code></pre> >> >> (I pulled the <pre><code> HTML out of my browser developer tools while >> displaying a normal code-fenced, highlighted snippet.) >> >> This *almost* works, except the highlight plugin doesn't kick in. I >> suspect this might be since I am using a <$text> widget, but I don't know >> the plugin well enough to be sure that's the cause. If I try to remove the >> <$text> widget, TiddlyWiki first renders the contents of the tiddler and >> then embeds the resulting HTML within the <pre> block, which looks bizarre >> and still doesn't syntax-highlight anything, so that's no good anyway: >> >> [image: foo.png] >> >> Is there any way I can get the highlight plugin to apply to this >> transcluded wikitext? >> > -- 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/f3013a38-df29-48ab-8bdc-aa848ddfb105n%40googlegroups.com.
