Arg, forgot attachment. On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 4:09:32 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> Here is how I would start things. (Download attached JSON, and drag into
> TiddlyWiki.com, or any tiddlywiki instance, to import the two tiddlers.)
>
> I tend to prefer using transclusions instead of macros.
>
> But this could be done with a macro instead.
>
> Eventually, I might consider using a macro when I find adding new fields
> to a citation getting messy. As is with transclusion, I would treat this
> all as comma-separated value file and always appending new fields at the
> end. If I found myself preferring the fields in a different order, I'd
> convert this transclusion setup to a macro setup. Maybe. I'd be more
> likely to add some goodies to continue using transclusion.
>
> All of that aside, I'm thinking that what we have here so far touches on a
> bunch of TiddlyWiki things to digest.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> I've got a whole solution in my head based on this foundation, and it is
> pretty sweet. Just impossible to explain ...
>
> On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:06:22 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>
>> G'day Edoardo,
>>
>> Welcome to TiddlerHood !
>>
>> TiddlyWiki is ridiculously flexible, and one can get it to do just about
>> anything short of pumping out toast.
>>
>> It can totally accommodate you, how you think, how your work.
>>
>> My thoughts: imagine a "create citation" button. You press it, and a
>> nice form appears with fields for you to fill out. You fill the fields,
>> click "Done", and the tiddler for your citation gets created, including
>> whatever bells and whistles automagically added to whatever fields in that
>> tiddler (example: the "citation" tag.)
>>
>> Easy thing to do in TiddlyWiki. If you want a sample of what I have in
>> mind, let me know and I can whip something together if somebody hasn't
>> already beaten me to it, or if you haven't already found a "canned"
>> solution.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> BTW, your post here in Google Groups do appear in the TiddlyTalk
>> discourse forum. So folk see your post.
>>
>> They are more likely, though, to respond if you post over there. Me, I
>> have a cognitive disability and can't handle TiddlyTalk at all. So I am
>> quite happy to be of service here.
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 2:48:57 AM UTC-4 Edoardo Milan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> First post in the community, thrilled! :) Discovering TW just now and
>>> very excited about it, thanks to everybody who's making it possible.
>>>
>>> I'm using tiddlydesktop with 5.1.22.
>>>
>>> I'd like to use TW to write down citations from books, and I would be
>>> specifying book's author and title and citation's page in tiddly fields (I
>>> was thinking to automatically generate the fields with buttons, through
>>> tm-new-tiddler
>>> or ActionCreateTiddlerWidget).
>>>
>>> So: ideally my tiddly title would then automatically be generated as
>>> {{author}}, {{title}}: {{pagenumber}} when I save my tiddly. Would this be
>>> possible some way? I have been looking into transclusion, more buttons,
>>> action widgets and so on but couldn't really come to a solution.
>>>
>>> Another workflow idea would be to write the citations in "subtiddlies"
>>> stemming from a book "parent tiddly" which would already contain author and
>>> title information, so that also those fields could get automatically filled
>>> in the citation subtiddly.
>>>
>>> Any idea or help in how to accomplish this? I'm discovering TiddlyWiki
>>> just now and not a developer so struggling a bit with these issues!!
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> Edoardo
>>>
>>
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CitationSetupForTw.json
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