Yes Soren, you are right: I have little understanding of the inner gears of
text substitution and wikification in TW, nor did I find a thorough,
comprehensive and self-contained guide to the matter so far: all the TW
documentation I went through is a mess of scantly-explained (if ever),
loosely-consistent, scattered bits of information, and this is a pity
because the software has tremendous potentiality. Maybe you can point me to
some good documentation anyway, of which I would be grateful.
Thanks and regards,
CG
On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 8:22:13 PM UTC+3 Soren Bjornstad wrote:
> I second CJ in saying that the {{{ [<currentTiddler>addsuffix[whatever]]
> }}} route is usually a better way to concatenate text, especially when you
> don't know much TiddlyWiki.
>
> You're getting bitten by not understanding text substitution
> <https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Text%20Substitution> and wikification
> <https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Wikification>, which are both quite
> complex and require you to understand how TiddlyWiki actually goes about
> processing macros and rendering tiddlers. In contrast, your intuition will
> usually work fine with filters.
>
> On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 11:08:29 AM UTC-5 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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