The links I gave you were to my TiddlyWiki textbook, not the TW
documentation. It might not be "self-contained" since it's intended to be
in the context of the whole course, but I think you'll find it more useful
than the TW documentation at your skill level.
On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1:27:08 PM UTC-5 CarloGgi wrote:
> 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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