And it totally works! Thanks so much, David!
-- Joe
On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 6:17:37 PM UTC-4, Joseph Elacqua wrote:
>
> 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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