Hi BJ,
That sounds like a really good idea. But when I try it, it gives an alert
pop-up that says "html2twmarco not found". ("marco" is an exact quote).
Is there something else I have to do to the macro (naming, location,
tagging?) to allow it to be found?
Thanks!
Mark
On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 3:40:05 AM UTC-7, BJ wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
> good stuff!. You marco seem to work to a large extend. I wrote a similar
> one to convert to html to tw2, and had about the same success, for
> reference it is here
>
>
> http://tiddlyclip.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fbj%2Ftiddlyclip%2Fconvert.js
>
> If you make a small change in your code you can call the macro from a
> tiddlyclip rule. The change is
>
> /* Check for special environmental variable. But argument text will take
> precedence. */
> var vartext = (this && this.getVariable) ?
> this.getVariable("text2convert"): null;
> if (vartext) intext = vartext ;
>
>
> The tiddlyclip tiddlers are below, and allow content to be converted as it
> is clipped.
>
> All the best
> BJ
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 11:32:37 PM UTC, Mark S. wrote:
>>
>> This is really kind of klugey (sp?) but it gets you (or at least me)
>> about 90% of the way towards turning HTML from web pages into TW5 mark-up.
>> It attempts to convert most common markups including links, images and
>> tables.
>>
>> Someone who understood TW5 better would probably build a DOM tree
>> structure, and then parse out the parts piece by piece.
>>
>> What I did was to simply apply a series of regular expressions. The
>> problem with this approach is that mismatched tags can really throw the
>> translation off the rails. So use at your own risk. You should check to
>> make sure that all original content is still present. You are likely to
>> need to adjust bullets and tables. It's likely that certain situations I
>> haven't thought of will break it more severely.
>>
>> Maybe this will be an incentive for someone to come up with something
>> better ;-)
>>
>> As always, make sure that you have a backup of any TW you try this in.
>> Just import the attached json and then reload your TW file. Put your HTML
>> contents in a designated tiddler. In the HTML2TW Launcher supply the name
>> of the source tiddler and click on the convert button. The resulting
>> mark-up should appear in the tiddler with the same name as the original
>> tiddler plus "-converted" appended to the title..
>>
>> Thanks to BJ, Eric, and Jed for helping me with the launcher.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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