Hi all On Friday morning I woke up with energy for the first time in a couple weeks, at least, and had several epiphanies, most of which had to do with TiddlyWiki. I then went to work yesterday (Fri) and today (Sat) and came up with an easier way to use TiddlyWiki to publish a large wiki-like web of static htmls. Here are a couple things I learned along the way:
*1. Flipping title field and showname field* The thought occurred to me that I could add another field to my tiddlers, which I called showname. I tagged it $:/tags/ViewTemplate, and pasted it high up in the list field of $:/tags/ViewTemplate. Then I removed the $:/tags/ViewTemplate tag from $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title. What does this do? In edit mode, I use the title field to paste the file name for the static html to be produced from this tiddler. That way when I export to static html, the filename is what shows up in the prompt that appears to ask me where to save the file, so I don't need to go back and rename the saved file. I use the showname field for the title I want the user to see when viewing the static (and for me when viewing the tiddler in the standalone TW). The added advantage to this is that if I change the tiddler 'title', I don't need to change all the links in other tiddlers that link to this file. They still link to the filename in the title field. *2. Toggling edit stylesheet and publish stylesheet* One thing that has happened to me in the past is that when creating a tiddlywiki for publishing that is more like a true wiki, with lots of hyperlinks, is that I find it hard to mark my progress - In tiddler A want to add links to tiddler B that doesn't exist yet, but I am not ready to actually create tiddler B and add content. I just want to focus on tiddler A. So I created two almost identical stylesheets. The editing stylesheet shows yellow highlights I put around unfinished items, shows dark orange text I use to leave myself notes about what to do next, what sources to investigate, etc, and shows missing links in gray. The publishing stylesheet has a 'display none' CSS for the highlights and my orange notes, and displays missing links as the same color as the body text. *3. Buttons for links* Since the links are to filenames, I need pretty links for everything. So I created buttons, one to wrap filenames with a pretty external link to a file in the same folder (I use one folder per topic / TW file), and another button for pretty external links to files in a different folder. *4. Display macro* I thought the display macro would not work with static html, but it works great, so I use it to condense longer indexes of links. Very nice tool. I am using these statics at our main site (http://www.giffmex.org) and at a new site I am experimenting with for Spanish materials at http://articulos.giffmex.org. This system is pretty fast, and basically will turn my articulos site into a large wiki like site of interlocking statics, without needing to know node.js or github. (maybe I should call it giffipedia...) Just wanted to float these ideas around in case they help anyone who might also be using or wanting to use TW for static site generation, but who don't want to learn node.js and Github. Blessings Dave -- 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/a1c1e00f-e92b-4b2b-a352-dc0737442396%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
