Oh for sure, I agree: it is *very* pretty.
And subtle looking too, but then I quickly fall back into paralysis by
analysis, thinking "but maybe that is too subtle": will it grab me by the
jugular to let me know clearly what's going to happen right there, in the
mist of everything above and below it?
So yeah, triple-curly brackets: ugly, but definitely quick to see what's
going on. ("Yup, there's a transclusion.")
On Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 5:04:07 PM UTC-3 Mat wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts. Yeah, I don't expect it to be anything doable, I
> just figured it was a neat thought. The reason for the distinct triple
> braces are, I must assume, to make it unique. If single square brackets
> were used, I guess there'd have to be some additional condition on the
> content between the brackets and I'm sure this would make things more
> complicated.
> But still, it *would* be pretty me thinks ;-)
>
> <:-)
> On Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 8:56:17 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>> G'day Mat,
>>
>> Without knowing TW's guts, I'm tempted to say that kind of notation would
>> get TW into a bit of notation overload (i.e. a notation meaning different
>> things depending on the scenario/context, and maybe getting a little hard
>> to differentiate between the scenarios/contexts.)
>>
>> That might be pushing successful parsing beyond limits.
>>
>> But it would take somebody in the nitty-gritty-know to chime in.
>> On Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 8:58:19 AM UTC-3 Mat wrote:
>>
>>> (Somewhat related to a post I just made about "filter links
>>> <https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/tiddlywiki/c/8EsUjjd-5dQ>")
>>>
>>> Here's a syntactic idea: It would be neat if filters could be run
>>> directly instead of having to be encapsultated in arcane triple braces
>>> (arcanely called "filtered transclusion")? I.e instead of
>>>
>>> {{{ [tag[HelloThere]] }}}
>>>
>>> ...it could just directly be...
>>>
>>> [tag[HelloThere]]
>>>
>>> ...and the output from the filter is shown.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, a plain bracket link [[HelloThere]] is considered a filter,
>>> evidently run to give the link. (But [title[HelloThere]] does not work.)
>>>
>>> <:-)
>>>
>>
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