Are you looking for this, by any chance: At the top of your story tiddler you say: <<tiddler "My Characters">> where "My Characters" is the tiddler that has your character info. This will insert the contents of "My Characters" at the location of the <<tiddler "My Characters">> statement. If it is "MyCharacters" instead of "My Characters" then double quotes are reduncant, I think.
If you want "My Characters" to appear as a link instead, then you say: [[Link to My Characters| MyCharacters]]. Not sure this what you were asking. But just in case you were ... - shankar On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:13:07 AM UTC-8, Anton Aylward wrote: > > I'm trying to write a wiki using tiddlywiki for writing stories. > > The sources (and software packages) tell me to create 'card index files' > for characters, locations. > Note relevant details, so you can be consistent. > Easy to do with a wiki, eh? > > Lots of room for forms, templates, cross links and structuring. > > I'm doing all that after some false starts that tried out ideas. > > But one thing I haven't figured out ... > > The stories are a collection of "short stories" involving the same > characters, same "village". > For various reasons I don't want to do all the stories in one huge > tiddlywiki. > But the same characters and same locations crop up since this is a small > community and small setting (village). > > I realize I could simply copy a prior tiddlywiki file for a new story, > delete the storyline but keep the characters etc. > That seems clunky, especially if I revise any of that 'baseline'. Having > to copy back and to the other tiddlywiki files. > > So I'm wondering if there is a way to have a 'master' version and then > have each subsequent story tiddlywiki have the tiddlers for the characters > etc to refer back to that, somehow "mount" the master inside each story > wiki? > > I know this seems strange but I really don't want all the copying back and > forth to keep things consistent. > Such seems to defeat the whole purpose of doing this on the computer with > a wiki. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
