Springer, The text field is using a textarea definition and other field just text. You can have what we often call multi-line fields, however if you use the built in field editor in the edit template you will break the line feeds.
If that is what you are after consider raising a new thread. Tones On Friday, 23 July 2021 at 12:39:23 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > Soren, > > Thanks for responding so fast! > > When I have more time I'll have to look for other rendering differences, > but the short answer is in hind-sight I now understand how custom CSS could > do everything I was seeing. Unfortunately, it didn't occur to me that you'd > used custom CSS to alter how the wikitext markup renders. My first instinct > was that something was wrong on my end because I was/am the learner. And > honestly now I'll go back and look at your stylesheet because I do like it. > Maybe a simple warning up front for people to not worry about it. > > Yes, your tiddler on "Block Mode and Inline Mode" did help me have an "ah > ha!" moment in understanding how TiddlyWiki works. I do try to stick to > only using wikitext whenever I can even in tables with the exception of > <br>. The simpler I can keep things when things don't work it's less for me > to trouble shoot. I discovered the CodeMirror editor plugin for adding line > numbers to tiddlers in edit mode and that has help a ton, and I'm using > Notepad++ for the same reason when formatting larger blocks of text at once. > > But I'm still confused as to what the differences are in how things behave > in different places. For example back to my spacing issues general input in > a tiddler in edit mode versus in a custom field. From what I've read it > makes it seem like they should behave the same but they don't. Again some > of the most basic things spaces and carriage returns. In tiddler edit mode > spaces are sometimes ignored and carriage returns by default can hide and > break things, but if I paste text into a custom field it seems to ignore > carriage returns. But they are both supposed to be just text fields so > shouldn't they behave the same? It's things like these that make me > perpetually think there is something possibly very basic I'm missing or not > understanding. > > On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 8:27:09 PM UTC-4 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > >> Also, my comment should definitely say “vertical space,” not “horizontal >> space,” haha. >> >> On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 7:26:02 PM UTC-5 Soren Bjornstad wrote: >> >>> Paul, >>> >>> 1. No matter what I do and what I've searched for has been able to >>>> explain why some things render differently for me. This has often caused >>>> me >>>> to stop and spend large quantities of time trying to figure out what is >>>> wrong. For example. In no version of TiddlyWiki (or browser or operating >>>> system) that I've downloaded does Heading 2 render with an underline. >>>> Doesn't happen. Ever. But it does in Grok TiddlyWiki. >>>> >>> >>> Ah! This is just because Grok TiddlyWiki has custom CSS rules that make >>> some things look different. In $:/sib/Stylesheet, you'll find: >>> >>> /* Add more horizontal space and a border for headings, except the >>> title. */ >>> h2:not(.tc-title) { >>> /*margin-top: 6ex; -- for some bizarre reason Firefox and Chrome are >>> calculating ex-height differently, so eyeballed an appropriate number of >>> inches*/ >>> margin-top: 0.4in; >>> padding-bottom: 5px; >>> *border-bottom: 0.05px solid <<color foreground>>;* >>> } >>> >>> Are you able to give some more examples of this? You're not the first >>> person who's been confused by the fact that Grok TiddlyWiki doesn't look >>> exactly like a stock TiddlyWiki because I've configured it differently. >>> Maybe I need to point that out somewhere. >>> >>> >>>> BTW, an article on where spaces are ignored and where they break things >>>> and why would be AMAZING. >>>> >>> >>> Does block mode and inline mode >>> <https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Block%20Mode%20and%20Inline%20Mode> help >>> at all? That's specifically about carriage returns, but those are usually >>> more confusing than actual spaces in my experience. >>> >> -- 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/09ac1982-0a89-45fa-a7c7-51e0bc023063n%40googlegroups.com.
