subtitle might work. I see that its been used exactly 6 times so far. But what I liked about 'caption' was that it automatically got used in the toc macros. Perhaps the toc macros could be written to select the titles with this priority:
caption -> subtitle -> title Mark On Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 6:51:41 AM UTC-7, PMario wrote: > > @Stuart, > Please don't be afraid by the "techy" conversation here. You scratched in > important issue, where we don't have a generic solution yet!! > > > > > On Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 3:20:18 PM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >> >> But if it only needs to be short for menus ... just use it for menus and >> let it be long for other things. A photo 'caption' is often long. If the >> intention was that the content be short, there should have been a >> 'short-title' field. >> >> The 'title' field is really, and unfortunately, an id field. There needs >> to be a standard field for long, mutable descriptions. >> > > see: http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlerFields ... Be aware that it shows most > existing fields at tiddlywiki.com the empty.html file has much less. > > There is the description field. It is already used in the plugin context > and it's meant to be a whole paragraph, if needed. > > Having a look to the TW source, imo the best field is "*subtitle*". It's > used exactly in the way we would need it here. eg: > $:/language/Modals/Download is a tiddler name and the "subtitle: Download > changes". > > The usecase here is: "Giving users the info they need, without confusing > them." > So for me that's exactly what the OP wants. And the field name imo makes > sense too: *subtitle* .... What do you think? > > have fun! > mario > -- 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/a4384265-6da5-46cc-a180-b4af996d3759%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
