Charlie, your solution worked fine!
<$transclude tiddler={{{ [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[_EN]]}}} />
Still I wonder why the macro way doesn't yield the expected result, but
anyway thanksalot for the hint. I will duly commit myself to studying its
syntax, quite obscure to me.
Regards,
CG
On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 8:14 PM Charlie Veniot <cj.ven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking most folk prefer the macro route, and that makes sense to me.
>
> The way I'm wired, I usually go with transclusions unless I really don't
> have a choice. Can't explain it.
>
> *For the "variety is the spice of life" giggles*:
>
> <$list filter="whateveFilterHere">
> <$transclude tiddler={{{ [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[_EN]]}}} /> <br/>
> </$list>
>
> But that would be a pain in the caboose if spread all over the place.
>
> So sticking with my transclusion mentality...
>
> <$list filter="whateveFilterHere">
> {{||EN_Maker}} <br/>
> </$list>
>
> The tiddler "En_Maker" is a transclusion template tiddler with the
> following content:
>
> <$transclude tiddler={{{ [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[_EN]]}}} />
>
> Yeah, I'm quirky that way ...
>
> On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1:08:29 PM UTC-3 CarloGgi wrote:
>
>>
>> Hallo,
>> quite new to TW and I love it, though it is dramatically underdocumented
>> and the whole docs are an almost unusable mess.
>>
>> To my biggest astonishment, when I try to dynamically build the name of a
>> tiddler from inisde a macro, that macro output cannot be used from within a
>> transclude widget.
>>
>> \define getMeTiddlerName(a_suffix) <<currentTiddler>>$a_suffix$
>>
>> <$list filter="whateveFilterHere">
>> <$transclude tiddler=<<getMeTiddlerName "_EN">> /> <br/>
>> </$list>
>>
>> In the example above, I obtain the tiddler's name by adding suffix 'EN'
>> to current tiddler, which the macro DOES, but then its output
>> <<getMeTiddlerName "EN">> doesn't make transclude widget behave as expected.
>>
>> I also tried many combinations of single/double quotes, as for instance
>> in:
>>
>> <$transclude tiddler="<<getMeTiddlerName '_EN'>>" /> <br/>
>>
>> but no result at all: the transclude widget DOESN'T transclude the
>> dynamically-built tiddler SOMETIDDLERNAME_EN
>>
>> Not even the simpler version with hard-coded suffix works:
>>
>> \define getMeTiddlerName() <<currentTiddler>>_EN
>>
>> <$list filter="whateveFilterHere">
>> <$transclude tiddler=<<getMeTiddlerName>> /> <br/>
>> </$list>
>>
>> Nor does it using double quotes for 'tiddler' parameter inside transclude
>> widget:
>>
>> \define getMeTiddlerName() <<currentTiddler>>_EN
>>
>> <$list filter="whateveFilterHere">
>> <$transclude tiddler="<<getMeTiddlerName>>" /> <br/>
>> </$list>
>>
>> Thanks for helping, soooo frustrated!
>>
>> CG
>>
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