All the print-to-pdf options I've ever used will mulch images and
paragraphs.
Another, cleaner, technique is to copy and paste into Word. Tweak the look.
Then use it's export-to-pdf functionality.
-- Mark
On Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 8:32:50 AM UTC-7, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>
> TW is a platform as well as just note-taking but you can extend it or not
> depending on your desires to dig into the internals or not.
>
> To elaborate on TonyM's suggestion, another built-in option to solve your
> export problem is in the Advanced Search tiddler, in the Filters tab, you
> can just put in the filter for what you want and export to a static HTML.
> That will import in Word normally but Word does get rid of the divisions
> between the tiddlers but will apply header styles to the imported tiddler
> title. If you link to external images, they seem to import fine too. The
> images embedded as Tiddlers and linked in will display fine in the static
> HTML file in a browser but Word doesn't seem to like them.
>
> I have had mixed success with exporting to a PDF and then importing a PDF
> into Word. Images get mulched sometimes. If you have the full Adobe PDF
> software, the export to Word option in there will give you more joy ... but
> even it does some odd things with images sometimes.
>
> /Mike
>
> On Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 9:06:24 AM UTC-4, David Lewis wrote:
>>
>> Neat -- thanks!
>>
>> I now see that TW is not an application so much as a programming system,
>> and a pretty interesting and useful one. That appeals to the software
>> engineer in me. But I have to decide if that's where I wanna go now, with
>> that career in the past -- or use a dedicated note-taking and tagging app
>> like Evernote or CintaNotes.
>>
>> --David
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 5:14:55 PM UTC-4, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>>>
>>> To answer your "small tutorial" question:
>>> To OR (Union) lists. Just add a separate closed square bracket filters
>>> separated by a space ... e.g.
>>> {{{[tag[science]] [tag[time]]||separator_template}}}
>>>
>>> To AND (Intersection) lists. Just concatenate the filter terms within
>>> the closed square brackets ... e.g.
>>> {{{[tag[science]tag[time]]||separator_template}}}
>>>
>>> Examples of OR and AND lists are buried in the TiddlyWiki help files for
>>> Filters somewhere but I always have a hard time searching for them until I
>>> find them and it seems obvious where they are : ]
>>>
>>> /Mike
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 28, 2018 at 9:46:56 AM UTC-4, David Lewis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Sounds like the secret I was missing was to create a single
>>>> tiddler, not a bunch of tiddlers.
>>>>
>>>> If you don't mind -- as a small tutorial, could you explain or show how
>>>> to create that single tiddler, say for the tag "science", or better yet,
>>>> the tag query, "science" OR "time", with a separator of "::::::::::::::"
>>>> between concatenated retrieved tiddlers. I'll worry about export later.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. --David
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 28, 2018 at 9:18:43 AM UTC-4, TonyM wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A Shorthand answer,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just ask for more details.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you create a single tiddler, that displays what you want to appear
>>>>> in your document, perhaps using a list of tiddlers with a given tag,
>>>>> sorted
>>>>> by an appropriate field or using drag and drop to set the order, you can
>>>>> then print the tiddler to PDF and open that in Word will be a quick
>>>>> answer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some export as HTML and do other tricks see a recent discussion on
>>>>> this here
>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/tiddlywiki/word$20document%7Csort:date/tiddlywiki/2CysdL4XVpA/dmCcL9bfAQAJ>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Tony
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, May 28, 2018 at 11:06:16 PM UTC+10, David Lewis wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm evaluating TW as a medium for taking research notes -- text,
>>>>>> links -- and then using them in the writing process. How would I
>>>>>> accomplish
>>>>>> the following task:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Choose a set of tiddlers based on a tag or logical combination
>>>>>> of tags, plus manual deletions
>>>>>> - Export them all *en masse* into a MS Word document,
>>>>>> concatenated, with some kind of separator between them
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm still working through learning how to use TW, and I can't see an
>>>>>> obvious way to do this without copy/pasting each target tiddler
>>>>>> individually, which would be a big nuisance. It would be OK to export to
>>>>>> concatenated text and then manually transfer to Word.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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