Thanks a lot, I'll go through it carefully!
CG
On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 10:56:10 PM UTC+3 Soren Bjornstad wrote:
> 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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