I thought about the caption field, but I felt like you'd want to be able to handle them independently. Also, typically the Caption field is a single word or phrase, where using the aliases field as a list field allows you to have multiple aliases.
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 2:22:26 PM UTC-4, David Szego wrote: > > Nice work, Matthew. Love it! > > Would suggest (and will tweak later) that if the "aliases" field also > doesn't exist, it checks for "caption" which is quite common. > > On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 14:44:29 UTC-4, Matthew Lauber wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I've come up with a way to creating aliases for tiddlers, in what I >> think is a clean and fairly intuitive manner. Using a field named >> "aliases" as a list field, I've updated the navigator widget to first check >> if the target exists, and then if it doesn't exist, if it is in the alias >> field of any tiddler. If it is an alias for just one tiddler it navigates >> directly to that tiddler. If it's an alias for multiple tiddlers, it >> displays a missing tiddler template which includes a disambiguation section >> listing the multiple things it is an alias for. Finally, I've updated the >> link widget to determine whether it is an alias for just one tiddler, and >> render it as existing if so. >> >> Check out the attached file for an example. >> >> Matt >> > -- 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/213467b6-2cbd-40e4-8151-7deaf9674379%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
