Hi Stephen > 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.
I was splitting it up so I could separate out individual elements and make them tiddlers and then transclude them in different relationships. Unless there's another way of leaving the original document intact and referencing/transcluding the particular sections of the document? Thanks Jon On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:44:52 UTC, Jon wrote: > > 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.
