There are multiple approaches, depending on how you want things chunked. Chunking matters because your students will probably be commenting at whatever "chunk" level you provide. So if you want paragraph-by-paragraph chunking, then you're going to need to chunk things into single-paragraph level tiddler chunks.
The more chunks, the more overhead, which is why it becomes tempting to chunk at the chapter or section level. One way to proceed would be to install tiddlyclip. Then go through the original text and clip the text you wanted piece by piece. You could do this as plain text or as converted TW markup text. I don't know if tiddlyclip can clip the original HTML or not -- I'd have to study the docs. The problems with this approach is that you would need to tag or add fields to your resulting tiddlers so that you could link a series of paragraphs up together as chapters and sections. So, it's labor intensive. Another approach is to drag and drop chapters (or selected paragraphs) into your new TiddlyWiki and then import the text. This brings in the original HTML formatting so it looks like the original text but the actual text is harder to edit and it's going to be a little bit bigger (because the text has HTML tags in it). You will want to tweak the HTML to remove the next/back links (either eliminate them or point them at the appropriate tiddler). Of course, you probably won't need to edit the text after this tweaking so HTMN might be all right. You will need to add your own titles to each tiddler chunk you import. You will probably want to either come up with titles that will allow the entire text to be sorted by title and/or add fields and tags that will allow the text to be reassembled as one document. Another approach would be to find the original HTML source text. I think the epub could be decompiled to do this. Put all the source HTML into one big HTML file and then convert it by a series of replacements into TW markup. Then paste the whole thing at once into a giant tiddler. Jeremy has a slicer tool/plugin that can then break out the text into smaller tiddlers of connected text. This last approach may actually be the easiest in the long run. As you can see, there's a bunch of things to think about. What size chunking? How much of the original formatting? How to connect the pieces together? HTH Mark On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 7:36:41 AM UTC-7, Steven Schneider wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:02:13 AM UTC-4, Mark S. wrote: >> >> I think he's saying that he wants to convert existing texts into TW. >> > > Yes - that is exactly what I am saying. Here is an example: > http://open.lib.umn.edu/americangovernment/ > > How would I begin to import this into TW? > > //steve. > > >>> -- 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/17e2df24-e011-47eb-bb15-b027d220f8db%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
