Josiah, Mark, I thought of doing something similar for PDF files I may drop on a wiki, add subjects or keywords to fields in the PDF tiddler such that a search can find the tiddler (containing the PDF).
I have just built a subjects alternative tag field using GenTags. And will test it soon. Regards Tony On Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 2:29:00 AM UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: > > Hi TT, > > How would you annotate text? > > In terms of size, a possibility is to externalize a text by chapter, > half-chapter, whatever is appropriate in an iframe. Then pack the unique > keywords into the tiddler so that it can be found in searches. So TW has > the meta data and can display the text. > > -- Mark > > On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 7:50:22 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Another thought about EPUBs--those that use public domain materials and >> have open licenses, of which there are a lot--is to deconstruct them into >> TW. The advantage of E-book is often a lot of care went into the logical >> design. So, in some ways, they can be better than raw Gutenberg et al as >> sources. >> >> The other part is, of course, ability to edit freely once in TW. For some >> kinds of project, like studying Dickens in detail, you need to do a lot >> more than bookmark. TW has all that is needed. >> >> ONE issue with TW does remain scalability. A biggish book can kinda work >> so long as you chunk it into substantial chunks. But most detailed >> commentary needs paragraph-level chunks. TW kind starts grinding to a halt >> on that for full length novels. >> >> Just thoughts >> Josiah >> > -- 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/3d07ca8d-780d-4330-b5ee-3e63bad68e58%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

