With that many copy and paste operations it would take quite a while even with the changes you describe. If you have any programming skills, you might be better off automating the process with a bit of external code that writes to a tiddler file (http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlerFiles) which can then just be dragged into a Tiddlywiki. I have done a couple of things along these lines - one taking data from an excel file, and another reading pages from a website (see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/TiddlyWiki/BBM5IyiLGsI). It takes a little while to begin with, but then you can really stuff your wikis full with lots of lovely data!
Neil. On Friday, 20 February 2015 18:30:27 UTC, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not sure if this can be done or if this is purely browser-dictated > functionality but ... > > I have been converting over large volumes of plain text (or largely > unformatted html) regulations from a website that are organized into > Section Headings + Section Paragraph on a new line. > > In looking for the best way to automagically and efficiently create a > single tiddler per section, I have tried various methods in Chrome: > > 1) Pasting the clipboard into the main TiddlyWiki screen > - opens up the import tiddler with a prompt to import an "Untitled" tiddler > - resulting tiddler is full html code of copied text with lots of html tags > - not ideal for tiddlywikification but really good WYSIWYG if that is what > you want > > 2) Open up a new tiddler in editing mode and paste text into title field > - html and line breaks are stripped out and entire plain text content of > clipboard is pasted into title field > - makes for a *looooong* tiddler title and clobbers all line break > formatting so you can't just re-cut and paste what you didn't want to be > title > > 3) Open up a new tiddler and paste text into text field > - strips out html and pastes all text including line breaks into text field > - clean up requires a few extra line breaks here and assigning a title ... > usually cut and pasting first line of pasted text into the title field > - this option worked the best > > Option 3 was fairly efficient but having to switch field and re-cut and > paste gets a little time-consuming when you are talking about 100's or > sections. > > What would work best ... at least for what I was doing and I think in a > more general sense ... would be when you had a new tiddler open, pasting in > the title would take the first line of text as the title and overflow the > rest into the text field. Optionally, it could just keep the first line of > text as the title and then discard the rest. That would set up the > efficient work-flow of just cutting one and pasting twice and getting > mostly the correct output with two keystrokes (paste twice) and two mouse > clicks (click to change field focus and to save tiddler). > > For the pasting->import Option 1) it would be nice to have a bit of > control as to how it is imported ... a checkbox to preserve formatting > (like exists) or not (like Method 2 or 3) ... and also to modify the title > before importing. Right now, if you paste multiple things and import them, > the Untitled tiddler just gets over-written multiple times with no warning. > > Does this sound like a useful change in default behaviour in general for > those using TiddlyWiki? Or is my use-case pretty specialized? > > /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.
