I just thought there might be a 'grab text from tiddler and paste it as
wikified text' macro I didn't know about.

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 9:58 AM, David Gifford <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, I do have a current system where the author and title appear as text
> in the edittemplate, wrapped by the formatting, and I copy and paste that
> when I need it. It is pretty easy. I just thought it would be nice to have
> it as a stamp to make it even easier. I guess I am just greedy!
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I asked for a feature like this here: https://groups.google.com/foru
>> m/#!topic/tiddlywiki/-KimJ3WSjfo
>>
>> I think with the current tech you could have  a snippet with a button
>> next to it. If you push the button, it updates the text. If you don't push
>> the button it stays the same. Hmmm ... maybe the button could have a style
>> attached, so that it's only visible when you want it to be visible. Of
>> course, that still means you will have to drag/drop the snippet and then
>> press the button.
>>
>> In your particular case, maybe it would be easier to hard code the text
>> snippet with the actual author and title. Obviously you are already going
>> through some process to change the text in the first tiddlers, so it seems
>> like changing the snippet text would not be that much harder.
>>
>> Mark
>> (Hey, who left this pile of coal under the tree??)
>>
>> On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 8:28:56 AM UTC-8, David Gifford wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> One more question. I would like to create a snippet that stamps the
>>> *current* text of a source tiddler into a second tiddler but where the
>>> stamped text in the second tiddler won't change if I later edit the text of
>>> the source tiddler.
>>>
>>> I tried:
>>>
>>> @@.source {{$:/.giffmex/Source/Author}}, //{{$:/.giffmex/Source/Title}}//,
>>> @@
>>>
>>> but then I realized that if I later change the text in either of those
>>> two source tiddlers, the text will also change in the stamps.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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