On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 4:10:03 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > That seems to be the final tweak. I put the triple quotes in (not BJ) > before I realized that the name/argument were mismatched. I fixed the > mismatch, but should have removed the quotes. > > I'm still very confused about all this. If all that a macro does is > substitution, how does it help to put everything inside of the macro? For > instance, the line: >
> <$set name="text2convert" value={{$x$}} > > The macro just assembles the code, but the parsing of the parameter value is done afterwards, when the fully expanded macro is *rendered* in the calling context. Putting everything inside a macro definition allows you to use the $x$ and $(x)$ syntax for substitutions of params and variables. -e -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/8e042661-ba19-4182-ba96-6ae23054dfeb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.