Hey that's great news BJ, gonna give it a try as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for the update
On Friday, 25 March 2016 10:32:41 UTC, BJ wrote: > > > > 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. >>> >> -- 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/11fbb89f-bc67-47ce-a3d3-47a13d24a0d3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
