I am a happy user of TWC. Every few months I check this group to see how TW5 is coming along and I was very happy to read this message - until I released it was 3 months old. Has this moratorium paid off? Is there documentation and a plugin list for new users? I hope so!
Here's my state: I have several useful TWC wikis in progress ... some have several hundred tiddlers. Even though there's very little theming done I have only read that a) TWC tiddlers can't be directly imported to TW5 and b) there's a tool "in progress" that will convert "most" tiddlers (but no specification of what gets converted and what doesn't). I'm willing to learn the new markup language, and in fact, I'm willing to start new wikis from scratch (new topics) but my blocking issue is that I do rely on several TWC plugins and I have no idea what the equivalent is in TW5 or if it is available. So in the interests of progressing, I hope you'll be able to answer for me what the equivalent of the following is in TW5 or what I should be doing instead: a) The single most important plugin I use is SharedTiddlers, which lets me have a "base" wiki which contains nearly all the plugins I use (except SharedTiddlers itself...) and then a bunch of topic wikis that refer to the "base" for all enhancments ... plugins, configuration, etc. That way when I introduce a new plugin to my repertoire ... or a plugin is upgraded ... I do it in one place - base.html - and it is available in all my wikis instantly and automatically. Does SharedTiddlers exist in TW5 or is there another way to get this vital functionality? b) TextArea - to adjust the size of the area of the new tiddler I'm creating. c) RearrangeTiddlers - I just like to organize several tiddlers I'm reading at the moment. d) ForEachTiddler - I've written little utilities like a macro that deletes all tiddlers with a given tag. e) DisableWikiLinks - sometimes it's more convenient than using individual markup f) MathJax - I can move up to KaTeX ... I assume the markup to signal TeX is similar, so this probably isn't a problem. Really, the lack of documentation and the different plugin support are the major major blockers for me. I just isn't practical to search google groups to find answers to questions like "what's available" - things are so scattered. I will very much appreciate your help in getting me going on TW5 by letting me know what the right way to handle each of the needs that the above TWC plugins do for me. And also, am I right that I might as well NOT convert my old TWC wikis? Or does the tool to do the conversion actual exist and work? Thanks very much! -- David Bakin On Friday, November 21, 2014 at 4:27:26 AM UTC-8, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > Several recent events have conspired to make me suggest that until the end > of the year I operate a moratorium on new features for TiddlyWiki5. > Instead, I propose to focus on documentation, and presentation of the > available editions and plugins. I will of course continue to fix bugs as > they are reported wherever it's possible to do so. > > -- 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.
