Mark, Thanks for sharing that hack.
Tony On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 2:21:07 AM UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: > > Tony has some great suggestions there. > > Here's a klugey approach that doesn't require plugins. > > In firefox, you can right select the text and "view source". Then copy the > selected source. Paste into your TW tiddler. > > NOW, the problem is that all of Wikipedias links are relative. You can > try, to change the base at the top of your tiddler: > > <base href="https://en.wikipedia.org/"/> > > > This will change the base reference and make the links functional. This is > a kludge. I don't think the "base" tag is actually supposed to work outside > the head tag, but it seems to on FF. > > However, it will also change the base reference to any tiddlers that have > relative links to your local image files, for example. A lot of people > don't seem to use these, so that may not be a problem. Fortunately, it > doesn't change internal TW linking because TW uses it's own TW mechanism. > It will also change the base path of other links if you are clipping from > some other source that uses relative links. You can add a base tag to the > new tiddler, but whichever tiddler is at top will win the base name war. > The base name is also only in effect when the tiddler is open. (I think). > > -- Mark > > > > On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 4:55:26 PM UTC-7, Mobil Home wrote: >> >> How do I get Wikipedia links automatically into tiddlers, when pasting >> text from Wikipedia? >> > -- 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/19b651b1-2577-4f67-bcac-ea87e0900f37%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
