Just had another thought. If you used 'caption' instead of alias, I believe that the toc menus in the sidebar would automatically use the caption field. In the long run, I think it's best if 'caption' be the field that's used to display the user-readable title.
Mark On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 6:48:36 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > Hi Mat, > > Very clever approach! I really need to bone up on CSS. I think in the 2016 > TW meet-up Jeremy said something about CSS making fools of everybody. > Certainly works that way with me ;-) > > I may be mistaken, but it appears that the links are only aliased when the > corresponding tiddlers are open in the story river. > > I experimented adding the tc-tiddler-frame class to the open and recent > sidebar items. That invoked the alias, but of course also changed the > formatting. I'm wondering if there is some other more universal class than > tc-tiddler-frame that could be used? > > Have fun -- > Mark > > On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 5:25:16 PM UTC-7, Mat wrote: >> >> Stuart Amor wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way of making an internal link, such as [[Contents]] return >>> the caption field of the Contents tiddler (if it was available) rather than >>> title? >>> >> >> >> Yes. I made this for that purpose: >> >> http://aliases.tiddlyspot.com/ >> >> it is however not perfected but the main ideas are in there. Basically, >> you use CSS to hide the link and instead show a pseudo :after element in >> its place. >> >> <:-) >> > -- 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/22f33a65-3e53-458c-8a44-7dd40ee687ef%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
