Joshua, Thanks for letting me know! Glad to have contributed to the bug chase through that seemingly inconspicuous question! I don't know much about GitHub, therefore I let you file that bug.
Best, Stéphane Le lundi 16 août 2021 à 11:54:36 UTC+2, Misterel85 a écrit : > Tones, > > Oh, now I better see what you mean by 'separating the data from its > presentation'. > It kind of reminds me of my attempts at concatenating genealogical data in > LaTeX with AppleScript years ago. What you advise is something I more or > less tried to do at the time. > > I fully agree with what you wrote, but your precious advice stumble over a > huge impediment: my poor skills at programming in general, and Wikitext in > particular! I have absolutely no programming or STEM background, > unfortunately, and I am only a tinkerer. > > When I manage to copy-paste and adapt existing code snippets to meet my > needs, I am very happy. > What a seasoned programmer would conceive and write in half an hour will > take hours --if not days-- for me to think about and assemble, and I am > overwhelmed with joy if it works, even if the resulting code would be > scoffed at by students, let alone their teachers, after a few months in a > 101 Programming class. > > Being both a perfectionist and a dabbler, one should never been given such > good advice as yours! They will keep what you suggest in mind and want to > implement it without ever knowing how to get started! How terrible! ;-) > My project is certainly not well-thought-out, and if it was, I would > probably need more code examples like the solution Eric Shulman kindly > provided me with. And TW v. 5.2.0 being in prerelease, I haven't looked > into it yet. > > I am aware that that TW project of mine is personal and is not designed to > be published. Unless I get struck with Alzheimer's disease soon --in which > case I won't need that project anymore--, for the moment I should be able > to remember its quirks when I use it. And there's room for improvement in > several other priority aspects of it. I am already spending way too much > time trying to achieve a project that probably wouldn't need all those > bells and whistles to work properly, to the detriment of other --as / > more-- meaningful projects. > > Best, > > Stéphane > > Le lundi 16 août 2021 à 02:34:48 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit : > >> We've found a bug! >> >> The wikitext parser object always tries to read Pragmas from the >> beginning to parse a text, and this _always_ trims whitespace from the text >> (moves the parser position past any leading whitespace). >> >> The $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/wikiparser.js module needs to >> updated. >> >> The Parser's `this.skipWhiteSpace =` method needs to check the >> `this.configTrimWhiteSpace` value before moving the parser position, or >> reset the parser position if no pragmas are read, etc. >> >> This type of change should definitely have Jeremy's eye on it. >> >> I am terribly busy at work, so I will come back and file a Bug/Issue on >> GitHub if no-one else can. >> >> Best, >> Joshua Fontany >> >> On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 10:34:41 AM UTC-7 Misterel85 wrote: >> >>> Yay, it works!!! Thank you very much for your quick reply and your >>> simple and straightforward solution, Eric! >>> After a bit of trial and error, I could adapt it to my TiddlyWiki. >>> No need for an anymore indeed. >>> Thanks again to all of you for your help, solutions, explanations and >>> suggestions. >>> >>> Best, >>> -Stéphane >>> >>> Le dimanche 15 août 2021 à 18:01:55 UTC+2, Eric Shulman a écrit : >>> >>>> On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 7:10:39 AM UTC-7 Misterel85 wrote: >>>> >>>>> I first thought there would have been a more straightforward solution >>>>> to that issue, but actually I come to think that it should be possible to >>>>> inspect the first character in the contents of field 2: >>>>> If value of field2 starts with space, then insert ` ` between the >>>>> transclusions, else just proceed with both transclusions. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Try this: >>>> <$transclude field="field1"/><$text text={{{ >>>> [{!!field2}split[]first[]match[ ]] }}}/><$transclude field="field2"/> >>>> >>>> Notes: >>>> * The {{{ [...] }}} is a "filtered transclusion" >>>> * The filter starts by getting the value of the desired field, using >>>> {!!field2} >>>> * It then splits that value into separate characters, using split[] >>>> * Next, it gets just the first character, using first[] >>>> * and compares it with a space, using match[ ] >>>> * The result of the filter is either nothing, or an actual space >>>> character (not an ) >>>> * The <$text> widget then converts the output to plain text (instead of >>>> displaying a link to a space!) >>>> >>>> enjoy, >>>> -e >>>> >>> -- 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/35c06f14-2774-4ca3-b8fa-0e093b4cef1fn%40googlegroups.com.
