David,

That's really all it is?  Wow.  I thought I'd have to learn macros and 
stuff.  Or at least that it'd be much more complicated than that.  I'm on 
my way out the door now, but I'll certainly try it tonight.  I'll let you 
know if it works to my needs or not.  Either way, thanks a bunch!

-- Joe

On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 6:14:34 PM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote:
>
> Hi Joe
>
> Yes, you can do this. To use your Bible example, you could do tiddlers 
> "Matthew 1:1" "Matthew 1:2" etc, then have a "Matthew 1" chapter tiddler 
> where you insert 
>
> {{Matthew 1:1}} 
> {{Matthew 1:2}} etc.
>
> You could also have the commentary and notes for Matthew 1:1 in a tiddler 
> tagged "Matthew 1:1", and set your tiddlers up with a viewtemplate so that 
> those appear below the text, but not in the chapter tiddler.
>
> Dave
>
> On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 2:30:33 PM UTC-5, Joseph Elacqua wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.  I just started using TiddlyWiki last week and think it's 
>> amazing.
>>
>> I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I am trying to see if I can 
>> get TiddlyWiki to do something in particular that is hard for me to 
>> describe.  Let's say that I have a page of text from a book.  I would like 
>> to put that data into a TiddlyWiki only once, but be able to access it in 
>> two forms:  both the full page, and sentence-by-sentence (i.e. each 
>> sentence as a separate Tiddler).
>>
>> Basically, I'm looking for a means by which I can "call" certain specific 
>> text from one Tiddler to another (so if I change the source, it will also 
>> alter the output), or alternately, call text from a set of text files into 
>> two places in my TiddlyWiki (once in that "full page" tiddler, and once in 
>> a "sentence-by-sentence" tiddler).
>>
>> If it makes it any easier to visualize, imagine a book of the Bible done 
>> this way, where you can click on a tiddler for an entire chapter, or 
>> alternately go verse-by-verse.  (The verse-by-verse pages would also be 
>> supplemented with commentary, other translations, etc.)
>>
>>
>> Thanks so much for your help!  Once again, my apologies if this has been 
>> answered before.
>>
>>
>> -- Joe
>>
>>
>> P.S. -- As an absolute novice with TiddlyWiki, I have no knowledge of 
>> using macros, etc.  I'm game to learn, but still a newbie at present.
>>
>

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