So seems like I answered my own question, mostly anyway, without realizing.
Since TW handles raw HTML rather well, it's rather easy to just export Org to HTML to a buffer (in Emacs, this means it doesn't actually save as an HTML file, it just throws the HTML code into another buffer, or another "windows"). In Org, one needs to include some formatting options previously according to taste. For me, I need to get rid of the table of contents (created automatically when exporting to HTML) and the numbers added to each header (again, automatically). In Org-mode, this is done by including these options at the head of the Org buffer: #+OPTIONS: toc:nil #+OPTIONS: num:nil Then, when I export to HTML, I am only looking for the <body> tags and copy what's between those. Paste into an empty TW window. Done. There's even the added benefit that you don't have to keep saving the wiki and overwriting your copy (which is needed in the new Firefox, even with some of the plug-ins). You simply copy-paste until you're happy with the results, and then save the wiki once. My only concern is that the format is completely HTML and not in TW syntax, and I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. Another issue I can think about is that I cannot link to other tiddlers and verify that the link work (in TW, it would be in italics if the tiddler doesn't exist), but that's just a small issue of one additional back and forth. Worth it for the writing experience, imho of course. I think that, for now, I'm satisfied with what I found. That is, until I try to write something later today or tomorrow... but I'm always the pessimistic one. On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 8:06:34 AM UTC-4, Shay Shaked wrote: > > This looks very promising LDL, but it gives me an error (unknown keyword: > export-block). This is in line 47 in ox-tiddly.el. I'm no programmer, but > it looks like "export block" is outdated and needs to be updated to > whatever the new syntax is. > > As for the discussion going on with Tony and Mark, it is interesting... > but not sure it's part of this topic (which is just how to make it work?). > So I will include my thoughts here, but I have a feeling this might lead > us in a different direction :p > > Text-slicer is news to me. It's close but doesn't exactly address the > issue which is the difference in syntax. Further, my Org files are already > usually rather short and built up as tiddler, it's not a matter of > breaking them down but from changing what would be a bullet point (*) to a > header (!) in TW. > > There seems like there should be a way where I can export to HTML (easy > enough to do with Org) and then import as tiddler with TW? Does TW do that > well, assuming the HTML does not include anything too "fancy"? > > Again, all I need is handling of headers, links, and that's it mostly. I > will gladly add tags (that are different on my TW anyway) and provide a > name for the tiddler myself. The format is so close. It's just that typing > in Org-mode is much easier and effective, for me, and comes with the added > benefits of spell checker (doesn't always work in TW). > > I can talk more about the benefits of writing in Org-mode, but I think > that's outside the scope of this discussion -- to each their own. That > said, I wouldn't recommend anyone try Org-mode just because they want to > write in TW... that's crazy talk. There must be other reasons. > > > > > > On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 4:23:13 AM UTC-4, LDL wrote: >> >> You can try this exporter: https://github.com/dfeich/org8-wikiexporters >> that should give you a tid file via the standard export interface of >> org-mode >> >> Il giorno martedì 26 giugno 2018 03:21:30 UTC+2, Shay Shaked ha scritto: >>> >>> I'm looking around and I see a lot of Emacs references, a few less (but >>> still a lot) Org-Mode references, but I don't see something that answers >>> the question itself (yet): is there a way to export from Org-mode to TW. >>> >>> I started playing around with Org-mode recently and the writing >>> experience is great. I would really like to be able to export to TW (tid) >>> format. The closet I saw was this >>> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Editing%20Tiddlers%20with%20Emacs> on >>> tiddlywiki.com but I'm not sure how to actually use it. It doesn't >>> font-lock (highlight) anything in the syntax really. Besides, I would >>> *really >>> *like to be able to write in Org-mode, if it exists. >>> >>> So... anyone here familiar with this? Anyone here uses Org to write and >>> work with TW at the same time? >>> >>> >>> -- 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/6aeb0d95-d34a-4eb5-8f55-1b2c30dd6fdd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
