On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 4:33:22 AM UTC, Duarte Farrajota Ramos wrote:
>
> The way I see it you could try two different methods
>
>
>    1. If you really want to edit them directly inside TiddlyWiki in a 
>    WYSIWYG manner you could try using the fantastic CKEditor plugin for 
>    TiddlyWiki 
>    <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/nMLwo2eRRqE/Qe5EDDDAcvYJ> 
>    by BJ. It as its fair share of rough edges but I've been using it for 
> quite 
>    a while now and it does it's job well if you put up with it's bugs.
>    
> Hi Duarte, I have made some improvement in the latest version (at 
http://bjtools.tiddlyspot.com)
cheers
BJ 

>
>    1. Since it is an HTML table you can simply copy paste it directly 
>    into the text area. If you make a custom local install of CKEditor you can 
>    include one of the table editing plugins and have an almost full fledged 
>    WYSIWYG table editor in TiddlyWiki without any coding or dealing with wiki 
>    text.
>    
>    2. Most spreadsheet applications can receive data from HTML tables by 
>    simple copy paste, like Google Docs, Excel, LibreOffice etc. just copy 
> your 
>    table and paste it wherever you feel most comfortable working. From there 
>    it should be fairly easy to export to any other more TiddlyWiki friendly 
>    format like CSV. Last i checked LibreOffice had a pretty decent CSV 
>    importer/exporter. You can then use any text editor or utility with find 
>    and replace or regex to tame your table into submission, and replace any 
>    CSV with wiki text delimiters.
>    
>
>
> On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 16:35:58 UTC, Ed wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> At work I have a database and I want to get the info into TW5.
>> The only way that I can do it is exporting an item to HTML and
>> that I can put in a tiddler. That works. It looks even OK>
>>
>> But editing that whole HTML-mess it is a downright nuisance, 
>> really too much work as there about 1500 - 2000 items.
>>
>> I'v been looking at converters online and I can make e.g. PDFs, 
>> Excels or or lightly fornatted text.
>>
>> Is there a way to convert HTML right away to TW5 tables?
>> Thanks is advance
>> Salut! Edm.
>>
>

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