Hi, For those interested, I want to explain why TW for Scholars [1] is not updated since August.
Scholars is the product of several attempts, like [2], to create an academic notetaking tool, learning step by step how to do it. I wanted something with forms and buttons to fill fields and create custom titles automatically. And it wouldn't have been possible without Matabele's widgets. But Scholars was just a proof of concept, and it faced two big problems: first, it was not a plugin; second, the plugins it relied on stoped working with tw 5.1 in September. When the ActionSetFieldWidget was implemented, at the end of November, I started working to substitute Matabele's widgets with core widgets and to bundle Scholars as a plugin. The idea was to split the features in different plugins: one for the basic mechanisms, and others for specific purposes. The plugin, called BottomTabs [3], was announced here in December. BottomTabs v.0.1 was buggy, messy, hard to customize, and the extra plugin for academic readings was incomplete. In order to enhance the code, I had to take drastic decisions leading to incompatible changes. Then, I renamed the plugin to MagicTabs [4]. MagicTabs is a set of plugins in active development. The basic plugin is usable enough, but needs some testing and debugging, and more incompatible changes are still possible. The plugin for academic notetaking needs to be entirely rewritten, as that will not be easy. When its done, TW for Scholars will consist of the MagicTabs basic plugin + an extra plugin for scholars + a dedicated theme/layout. In few words, TW for Scholars is far from dead, but it needs more work. Best wishes, Alberto [1] http://tw5.scholars.tiddlyspot.com/ [2] http://tesis.tiddlyspot.com/ [3] http://bottomtabs.tiddlyspot.com/ [4] http://magictabs.tiddlyspot.com/ -- 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.
