On and off for a couple of months I've tried to get the hang of TW5... and failed every time. It took a long time for me to get into TWC but I finally did get there and one of the best ways to control/customize it was via a theme (based on Bairds MPTW) where the various templates etc were collected in one place. I'm hoping to get there witht TW5 too but, darn, I can't get an overview of this.
For starters, could someone please give (or point to) an top-down overview of the general strategy for how the page elements are split up. In English not code, please. This is what I think I've understood, please correct me; First of all, where page elements are defined is very different from TWC. The commands/markup for defining the parts are different - they are in html in TWC but in TW5 they are in a "Jeremy-defined" markup language (based on and very close to established markup language which name escapes me) In TW5 the tiddler PageTemplate is named $:/core/ui/PageTemplate. The meat of this is this part: <$list filter="[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/PageTemplate]!has[draft.of]]" variable="listItem"> <$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/> </$list> ...which filters out all tiddlers tagged "$:/tags/PageTemplate". Not sure what that variable listItem is/does. It is clever to use a filter in the pagetemplate rather than hard coding which page elements to use because this lets us add new elements without actually messing this this pagetemplate tiddler but instead simply by adding the tag. The result from the filter are these: $:/core/ui/PageTemplate/alerts $:/core/ui/PageTemplate/sidebar $:/core/ui/PageTemplate/story $:/core/ui/PageTemplate/topleftbar $:/core/ui/PageTemplate/toprightbar Now, these elements are placed in the right place on the screen either by magic or by brain gamma rays from Jeremy. My best guess is magic, because I cannot imagine how brain rays would penetrate my bunker and with magic it would all make perfect sense and this would also explain a lot of other questions I have. Ok, I'll start with this. Please, I'd love to hear your comments. Thank you! <:-) -- 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/d/optout.
