Ciao David

There is screen scraper plugin somewhere that captures the rendered 
internal HTML of a Tiddler in focus. I think it will only give you HTML. I 
played with it. I had mixed results, mainly because of formatting issues. 
I'll see if I can find it.

Best wishes
Josiah

On Sunday, 25 December 2016 17:07:26 UTC+1, David Gifford wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> I asked for a feature like this here: 
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!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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