To clarify, TiddlyWiki running on node.js doesn't serve up images or other files. There are other applications running on node.js that do serve up images and that is one of the easiest ways to add a server to your set up if you want to go that route.
Thanks, Mark On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 9:22:12 PM UTC-7, Douglas Counts wrote: > > Just a few suggestions as I don't have the time right now to do a deeper > look at the problem: > > Node.JS can serve up images, video, or anything else you might want. > Whether TiddlyWiki itself though is coded for that, I'm not sure. Normally > one simply assigns a route using Express.JS middleware to serve up static > files. So there is a way to do this, I have done so on many websites, I > just don't have the time at the moment to dig deeper into how/if TiddlyWiki > itself is coded for this, but it is possible with Node.JS. > > Regarding your links to your PDF files, I used to make this same mistake > too. You need to use *relative external links* instead. The link format > is a little different from what you may have been doing, but it saves you a > lot on typing too. > > I used to load PDFs into a browser tab and copy the URL into TiddlyWiki > before I realized *relative external links* were available. > > So if you have a subdirectory below where your TiddlyWikis are like: > ./TWDataFiles/PDFs > > And you have a book located in there like so: > ./TWDataFiles/PDFs/Instant TiddlyWiki Development.pdf > > Then you can link to it like so: > [ext[Instant TiddlyWiki Development|TWDataFiles/PDFs/Instant TiddlyWiki > Development.pdf]] > > Notice that you need to not use the conventional [[title|link]] but > instead use [ext[title|link]] instead. > > There is actually some good documentation on external links here [Linking > in WikiText] > <http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Linking%2520in%2520WikiText.html>. > > Good luck, > > -Doug > > -- 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/b0714c6f-bcda-4d40-870d-1ee3ea3fba24%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
