Your suggestion is having the same problem as the solution I came up with,
unless I'm not understanding what you're doing.
Here's what I've got:
<$setvars _aplanet={{!!planet}} theplanet="aplanet[1]">
<link to=<<theplanet>>><<theplanet>></$link>
</$setvars>
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>
>> I just need a way to override the link widget's formatting now.
>> Otherwise Eric Shulman's solution works beautifully.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, that is not true. Although you may feel like you can avoid
> retrieving the title using a variable, you do need a proper reference and
> *[[Some
> Title]]* is not while *Some Title* is.
>
> The one thing I could think is to not use any link widget at all but to
> transclude the planet field as is, since it already does contain the link
> notation, e.g. *[[Some Title]]*... so simply inserting that via
> *{{!!planet}}* should produce a link, e.g.:
>
> title: any title
> planet: [[Some Planet]]
>
> {{!!planet}} <= this will be a link!
>
> However, using an editor equivalent to the tags editor, any values that do
> *not* contain spaces will be saved without double square brackets, so...
>
> title: any other title
> planet: Earth
>
> {{!!planet}} <= this will NOT be a link!
>
> So, as I or Eric suggested, you do need to retrieve the given item from a
> list-field and store it in a variable ...to be able to properly construct
> the link using the link widget.
>
> Ergo: It is not simply a matter of styles / formatting.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Tobias.
>
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