Hi Smandoli and IMO really VALUABLE when people put up informed and specific critiqe.
Yeah, they're similar but different. Like for Tobias, it was pretty much learning it from scratch. I made some early attempts but I just couldn't get my head around it. Now that I have, at least enough to get by, I don't only wonder what was so tricky but I'm also really, really, glad that I did go through. That said, my main TW is still a TWC and my attempts so far at "converting" it has failed because it is very customized and with lots of "forEachTiddler" etc. If I spent many hours on it (....which I will have to at some stage) then I'm sure I can get it to work though. As noted by both Tobias and Mario, the "trick" is to use TW5 for *new *cases/needs. This way you get to know it gradually and solve thing more in the usual by-need-basis as they occur. (Which is fun!) For someone like you, who is familiar with - and is fine with - the quirks and limitations of TW in general, I would think it is a mistake to not persist. For one thing, while TWC is definitely alive and fantastic, it is also definitely fading in many respects, just like so many other great coding projects that simply age due to decreasing user base. To name one thing; what if the browsers suddenly change and neither TWC nor TW5 work... I suspect more people will engage in redesigning the latter... > Migrating content tiddlers is a chore. The "upgrade" macro takes care of > most formatting, but apparently not line breaks, so I have to insert more > line breaks to finish the task. Therefore most tiddlers effectively > require two steps, and the second one is a bit labor-intensive. > Lack of simple line breaks is a BIG frustration for me too. Even just to make a simple list one is forced to use : or *. You reminded me of a concept I've been thinking about. It's really a post for my TWaddle site but I'll post it here on the boards in a sec, look out for title "[Concept] Section formatter" or some such title. I feel envious of those who are using TW5; I wonder, *how did they do it?* > I haven't found much on record to answer that question. In any case, > spending the next two years with TWC, though deprecated, promises to be > more fun than making the switch. > In addition to "use it for a new project", I'd say one should focus on *filters*. It is well documented but much of it from a technical point and IMO the very first beginner steps are missing or less clear. With forEachTiddler there was a given structure into which you put your arguments but TW5 filters are very dynamic and one has to understand more of what's actually happening. <:-) -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2c451b96-aae8-4ccd-9ea2-df4661420fd8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
