What was the problem with the <<tab>> approach? If it was just the sort
order, add a field "sortby" to each illustration with a double buffered
illustration number ("01", "02" ... "31" ....)
Then
<<tabs "[tag[Illustrations]sort[sortby]]"
\\
"$:/state/tab2" "tc-vertical">>
should work.
-- Mark
On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 10:51:27 AM UTC-7, Steven Schneider wrote:
>
> Hmm. Let me try again:
>
> At
> http://tombofhorrors.tiddlyspot.com/#Illustrations:Illustrations%20Description
> the
> author uses <<tabs>> to present images tagged with "Illustrations". This is
> ok, but not super ideal.
> I suggested he create a new tiddler called "Show the Illustrations" that
> made use of a list of tiddlers so that they could be identified and sorted.
> The <<tag Illustrations>> was of limited value, so I suggested he might use
> the list field instead (We ultimately ended up developing a tag-based
> macro
> <https://designwritestudio.updog.co/#Navigating%20Through%20A%20Set%20of%20Images>
> instead
> of using a list field...).
>
> While exploring list fields, it was annoying to manually populate a list
> field with every tagged tiddler, so we wrote that short one-time use button
> script that essentially put the contents of the <<tags>> field into a
> <<list>> field of a specified tiddler. (It was also a way to introduce the
> use of the ActionListOps widget)(on reflection, there was probably a faster
> way to copy the contents of the tag field of a tiddler into the list field
> of another tiddler, but I didn't think of that until now).
>
> Our discussion generated some interesting questions about the nature of
> list fields, as well as the nature of the tags field, and when it was
> useful / appropriate to use tags and when it was useful / appropriate to
> use list fields. That's really my question.
>
> Thanks for seeking clarification :)
>
> //steve.
>
>
> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 12:25:06 PM UTC-4, Stephan Hradek wrote:
>>
>> To me it's absolutely unclear
>>
>> a) What you're trying to achieve
>> b) What's your question
>>
>> Really sorry for that. Do you think there are filters the student can't
>> use becaue he used tags and he could have used, had he used lists? So can
>> you give an example? Maybe publish an example somewhere for us to have a
>> look at?
>>
>
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