Hello Josiah, On Tiddlywki.com if you type:
<$set name="perry" tiddler="HelloThere" field="text"> hello! <<perry>> </$set> You get the literal text of the tiddler HelloThere. Is this what you mean? On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 9:28:28 AM UTC-5, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > I need to get the literal text of a Tiddler into a simple macro/variable. > I have studied the documentation (like > https://tiddlywiki.com/#Concatenating%20text%20and%20variables%20using%20macro%20substitution) > > but still can't see how to do it ... > > *Use Case* > > tiddler title: "$:/PerryMason" > text content: "Paul Drake" > > All I want to do is get the *literal plain text* "Paul Drake" in to a > variable \defined perry(). > > Anyone know an easy way to do that? > > Help much appreciated > 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/43c6711b-cbf1-427d-941b-a7a4dec0a4d0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.