Hi BJ, That's pretty neat!
Here's the macro with your suggested changes, the $:/tags/tiddlyclip flag,
some attribution, disclaimer, and a bit of documentation.
If you want to include it in your distribution that's OK by me.
Thanks!
Mark
On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 11:12:58 AM UTC-7, BJ wrote:
>
> oops! your macro needs to be tagged $:/tags/tiddlyclip in order that tc
> can find it.
>
> On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 5:37:52 PM UTC, Mark S. wrote:
>>
>> 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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