Hi Mario, The use case is to annotate text. I adapted the .tip core macro by changing the image to a sheep. The sheep then becomes a character with her own perspective on the text.
I've borrowed the idea from Douglas Hofstader and Stafford Beer. Both have used the technique of including a dialogue at the end of chapters in one of their books. (I choose a sheep because of Dolly the sheep, the famous cloned sheep. I wondered what a clone-centric would look like in the context of TW! I am an artist by training, this is the kind of thing we are allowed to do? I started to develop a clone-centric TW, (SheepyWiki?) I found made a drag-to-clone button. I drag a link or title as link into the sheep and it clones the tiddler. I am shifting the metaphor from little fish in a stream sheep in a landscape. Part of me was thinking by making TW easier to understand, part of me was thinking about creating cartoon type stories where sheep talk for my children. The use case emerged when I cloned a tiddler, then wanted to annotate a trimmed version of the text. I put the trimmed text into the sheep macro then added double brackets to produce missing links. Then, from the preview window I create the new tiddler, without changing the title (pretty links to create a capital). From this tiddler there is no reference connection back to the tiddler with the macro. I was thinking of using the newly created tiddlers (from the sheep macro) as the starting point for a narrative. The tiddler could be tagged in such a way to hide the title, it could feature the sheep making a comment which expaned on the title of that tiddler. It sounds longwinded and complex, but in terms of annotating a text I found it to be a natural and quick process. A visual language was emerging where different voices annotating the text could be easily produced. To make a story, you could create an outline and a metastory then create annotations by cloning and making links from except of the text. The whole system falls down when the link from the macro doesn't create a backlink. I hope that makes sense. I will try and create a MTC.. Alex On 11 October 2017 at 11:29, PMario <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 9:45:52 AM UTC+2, AlexHough wrote: >> >> When you create a link in a documentation macro, that link doesn't show >> up as a reference. >> > > That's right. The reference mechanism parses the tiddler source (one level > deep) and looks for a "type: link" combination in the AST > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree>, produced by > [[link-syntax]] > > Since a macro call isn't a link, it isn't seen. .. That's "kind of" > desired behaviour, since link-references should show up in tiddlers that > define the link and not where they are eg: transcluded. ... > > But IMO they main reason is performance. ... If you would search deeper it > would be incredibly slow and recursion problems will come up immediately. > > >> I've started to adapt the documentation macros for my own use, it would >> be handy if they created a reference in the linked-to tiddler >> > > What do you try to achieve? > > -m > > -- > 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/ms > gid/tiddlywiki/185f6073-ff20-4f97-a4ff-27a7505c9c4b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/185f6073-ff20-4f97-a4ff-27a7505c9c4b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALc1hYd%2B64AKGUqRvLmgEKindBeoOhLymyZw6jUS%3DeAa4nR3Zg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
