Hi Michael I'm afraid that as you've found the TOC macro doesn't work well with tiddlers with square brackets in their titles. There isn't a workaround at the moment. With some work I think we could fix it so that it does work, though. I've created a ticket here:
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1200 Best wishes Jeremy On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Michael Wiktowy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure if square brackets are supposed to be allowed in tiddler > titles but I noticed that the automatic TOC builders do not like them much. > It tries to interpret the titles as filters in some way. This isn't an > issue with round or squiggly brackets but I can imagine that the same issue > that is interpreting this case might have problems with other special > character combinations. Double square brackets have a similar issue but > seem to give a different manifestation with the TOC is sorted than single > square brackets. > > The following is a json export of a self contained group of Tiddlers > showing this problem. (I couldn't attach as a file for some reason but > cutting and pasting into a text file and importing that into any TiddlyWiki > should work fine): > > [ > { > "created": "20141205171240135", > "text": "Some text in Tiddler [with square brackets]", > "tags": "[[bug report]] [[Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with > square brackets in title]]", > "title": "Tiddler [with square brackets]", > "modified": "20141205171954093" > }, > { > "created": "20141205171518406", > "text": "Some text in Tiddler (with round brackets)", > "tags": "[[bug report]] [[Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with > square brackets in title]]", > "title": "Tiddler (with round brackets)", > "modified": "20141205172005060" > }, > { > "created": "20141205171703109", > "text": "Some text in Tiddler {with squiggly brackets}", > "tags": "[[Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with square > brackets in title]] [[bug report]]", > "title": "Tiddler {with squiggly brackets}", > "modified": "20141205172022775" > }, > { > "created": "20141205171000230", > "text": "Simple TOC:\n<div class=\"tc-table-of-contents\">\n<<toc > \"Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with square brackets in > title\">>\n</div>\n\nExpandable TOC:\n<div > class=\"tc-table-of-contents\">\n<<toc-expandable \"Tiddler with TOC > containing Tiddler with square brackets in title\">>\n</div>\n\nSelective > Expandable TOC:\n<div > class=\"tc-table-of-contents\">\n<<toc-selective-expandable \"Tiddler with > TOC containing Tiddler with square brackets in title\">>\n</div>\n\nSorted > Expandable TOC:\n<div class=\"tc-table-of-contents\">\n<<toc-expandable > \"Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with square brackets in title\" > \"sort[title]\">>\n</div>", > "title": "Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with square brackets > in title", > "tags": "[[bug report]]", > "modified": "20141205173324901" > }, > { > "created": "20141205174257528", > "text": "Text in Tiddler with {{double squiggly brackets}}", > "tags": "[[Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with square > brackets in title]] [[bug report]]", > "title": "Tiddler with {{double squiggly brackets}}", > "modified": "20141205174353746" > }, > { > "created": "20141205174410946", > "text": "Text in Tiddler with [[double square brackets]]", > "tags": "[[Tiddler with TOC containing Tiddler with square > brackets in title]] [[bug report]]", > "title": "Tiddler with [[double square brackets]]", > "modified": "20141205174557791" > } > ] > > > I have worked around this just by using round brackets in place of square > ones. However, is there an official accepted way to "escape" these special > characters to avoid interpretation yet avoid tiddler naming/linking > nightmares? > > Thanks, > /Mike > > -- > 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. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
