On Saturday, January 3, 2015 10:13:11 AM UTC-8, Jim Lehmer wrote: > > On Saturday, January 3, 2015 10:52:19 AM UTC-6, Jim Lehmer wrote: >> >> Here's something I wrote that someone may find useful, especially >> documenting some of TW's special character sequences: >> >> http://dullroar.com/Fun%2520with%2520Unicode%2520and%2520TiddlyWiki.html >> > > One objection people might have is I could simply use the HTML character > entities for the troublesome characters, but then I have to look them up > each time. But since most wikitext delimiters are doubled, this way I just > have to remember a single entity (and U+2060 seems pretty easy to remember) > and simply put it between the two characters without having to worry about > whether there are other special "escaping" rules for a given character pair > or not. :) >
I've done the same thing in TWC (which also uses the @@...@@ format for inline CSS). However, rather than using the somewhat obscure Unicode value, I just use an "empty" block of italics to achieve the same result... like this: @////@color:red; This is NOT red @@ I think that @////@ is easier to remember (and easier to type) than @⁠@ enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios HELP ME TO HELP YOU - MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TODAY: "Inside TiddlyWiki: The Missing Manual" https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual/x/8816263 NEW YEARS 2015 SPECIAL PERK UPGRADE *** NOW THROUGH JANUARY 4th: *** * each $10 donation receives the $50 "Friend" perk * each $100 donation receives the $500 "Partner" perk (includes a SIGNED COPY OF THE FINAL PRINTED BOOK) Professional TiddlyWiki Consulting Services... Analysis, Design, and Custom Solutions: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact -- 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.

