Ciao Diego Looks part the way there. But I need get the (literal text) value "Paul Drake" into a Global Macro <<perry>> for use elsewhere. As far as I grasp $set use is limited to its context? Excuse my ignorance if I'm wrong.
J. On Sunday, 3 June 2018 16:52:56 UTC+2, Diego Mesa wrote: > > Hello Josiah, > > On Tiddlywki.com if you type: > > <$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/4d5225f0-7495-4ada-99a7-8f8eaff85c4e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
