Hey Richard -- A solution through a mechanism like that is possible, but is both roundabout (filters are made for producing lists of different items, not formatting data for output) and extremely limited (I don't know of any way to make a filter that interleaves fields from a list of tiddlers -- in my case, dates of birth and death).
Generally my feeling is that aggressively extending filter syntax is a poor stand-in for wikitext capabilities here. Plaintext rendering is already possible for stylesheets <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Using%20Stylesheets> through an exceptional mechanism in the renderer... A functional solution could be as simple as a JS macro that calls into the rendering engine: <<wiki-render {{||_GenealogyPath}} text/plain>> -- but since that might (??) threaten the integrity of the widget tree's refresh logic if used as a widget attribute, it probably makes more sense to just facilitate typed transclusion in HTML syntax... For what it's worth, I managed to hack my way around my immediate problem by using fat SVG lines instead of SVG paths. (See result) <https://twitter.com/EvanBalster/status/604815857731039232> However, my question stands as this solution required some compromises and it's likely I'll want to do path generation in the future. Regards, Evan On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Richard Smith < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Evan, > > I understand now - you want to be able to compose the svg 'path' using a > filter and so wish to transclude the output of the filter into an > attribute. After some playing just now, I would concur that this doesn't > seem possible on the face of things. > > Jed or someone else who has the serious filter-fu may know of newer > solutions, but I think (may be wrong) this limitation is what caused > Matabele to write the $makelist widget which sets the value of a field > according to a filter output - you can then refer to *this* value by > transclusion. > > You should be able to find Matabele's widget by searching the forum - I'm > not sure if it is up to date etc. > > Regards, > Richard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/S-5vLIqWxWk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c2915d3c-b705-48dc-b44a-6b80b0ea874c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c2915d3c-b705-48dc-b44a-6b80b0ea874c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAEKipHkFquxLjVTRUzmN4s5GSBXwzmbiO7wK_DLR5xfzVJERTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
