Dave, Definitely not going to reinvent the wheel—only to repurpose it. There's nothing out there (that I'm aware of) that seeks to do what I plan to do. Biblical texts in this thread served merely as examples, nothing more.
-- Joe On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 11:02:43 AM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote: > > Well, my personal advice would be that since there are already so many > sites with the actual Bible text (biblia.com is another link), don't > reinvent the wheel. Use your time and effort to help the world understand > and apply the text. > > Dave > > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Joseph Elacqua <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> Thanks for the link. I do plan to use TiddlyWiki to basically create >> something that operates very similarly to BibleGateway, but with a large >> number of texts that aren't represented there. The vast majority of them >> are going to have to be inputted by hand, which will be massively terrible, >> but useful—I hope—to others. >> >> -- Joe >> >> >> On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 10:44:09 AM UTC-4, David Gifford wrote: >>> >>> Another option would be to add links to the verses in Bible Gateway >>> https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+1.1&version=NIV >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Joseph Elacqua <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks, Miguel! That will make my project a LOT easier. >>>> >>>> One further question just came to me though. We talked about putting >>>> each "verse" (e.g. Matthew 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, etc.) as its own tiddler and >>>> calling them all into a single ordered tiddler. Is there some way to >>>> create the same end result, except having each "verse" be called from a >>>> separate local text file, rather than a unique tiddler? That would also >>>> make my project a lot easier as there are going to be a LOT of individual >>>> "verse" tiddlers and I would like to keep the filesize of my tiddlywiki as >>>> minimal as possible. >>>> >>>> I read that I could call data from one tiddlywiki to another (didn't >>>> look too in-depth to see how difficult it was), so I suppose I could >>>> always >>>> create one tw for "verses" and one for "chapters," but that could be a lot >>>> more complicated than simply having one "source folder" where all the text >>>> remains constant, and simply have tw manage and manipulate that text in >>>> the >>>> way the reader wishes. >>>> >>>> Thanks so much for all your help. I'm SO glad I chose TiddlyWiki for >>>> this project. It seems to have every option available that I require. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- Joe >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 11:46:30 AM UTC-4, Miguel Bartelsman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> To expand on David's answer, you can use filters to do that >>>>> automatically >>>>> >>>>> <$list filter="[prefix[Matthew 1:]sort[title]]"> >>>>> {{<<currentTiddler>>}} >>>>> </$list> >>>>> >>>>> That should transclude all tiddlers from Matthew 1 in a list ordered >>>>> by name. This has one problem which is the way that tiddlywiki handles >>>>> alphabetical order, it will order it like this: 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, >>>>> 15, >>>>> 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, 21, 3, 4, 5. So you'd need to add zeroes before >>>>> single digit numbers (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11...) >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, 2 May 2015 17:14:34 UTC-5, 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! 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