Hi Stephen, that's very interesting - I didn't know you could do that. I'll try that method for the next file.
Thanks Jon On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:36:44 UTC, Stephen Kimmel wrote: > Given that you have already split the word document into separate files, > Jeremy's answer is probably as good as there is. However, for the next time > you need to do something like this, consider that you could have done the > operation differently. > > I import Word files into TiddlyWiki all the time and some of them are > quite large. I open the document in Word and copy the entire document. I > then paste it into TiddlyWiki creating one large tiddler. The copy and > paste operation nearly converts the document into a text document but not > quite and some of the formatting has to be repaired. Once I've saved the > large tiddler, for many of my purposes, I'm done. When I need a small > portion of the large tiddler, I can split it out simply enough. If you > highlight the portion of the text in display mode and drag it to an open > area of TiddlyWiki, say under the sidebar, and drop it there, TiddlyWiki > will treat that as though you're importing a new untitled tiddler. You can > then complete the import and rename that tiddler anything you would like. > The net result is that you could do the entire operation in about the same > amount of time as you have done already. > > An alternative approach is to get yourself a copy of TiddlyWiki Classic > from Eric's TiddlyTools http://www.tiddlytools.com/ with the Quickstart > Basics package. That includes an editor function that will allow you to > split a large tiddler into smaller ones while leaving either links or > transclusions in the main document to retain the order of the original > document. Eric also has what I would call a powertool called SplitTiddler > that will split the large tiddler automatically in a number of different > ways including at a user defined section marker. Eric's tools will only > work with TiddlyWiki Classic. However, once you have the document split up > or refactored, you can then import the finished tiddlers into TW5. > > Although TiddlyWiki was designed with small tiddlers in mind, I find it > handles large ones just as well. You can leave the Word document as a > single tiddler if that suits your needs or split it up as required. Next > time you import a Word document, consider what you are actually trying to > accomplish before you go to the effort of splitting it up. > -- 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.
