On second thought, scratch the idea about the enter key. That would create problems for me when going back and editing later. I sometimes like to have spaces between bullets in edit mode.
David Gifford Mexico team leader, Mexico City *Resonate Global Mission* *Engaging People. Embracing Christ.* A Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church resonateglobalmission.org On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 8:32 AM, David Gifford <dgiff...@crcna.org> wrote: > Ahh now I understand you. > > Re-reading your posts in the morning helped me see what you are saying. > > I think to restate my request in a simpler way, what I want is to reassign > the tab key to insert asterisks instead of whatever it does now in > TiddlyWiki. (or : or | but * has the advantage of already doing what I want > it to do). > > In other words, I want to hit a tab key once, twice or more within a line > to add bullets rather than go back and select and hit editor buttons. > > A second but less necessary tweak would be tweaking the enter key so that > it does a new line but also adds an asterisk. That way I could finish a > line, hit enter, and be on the next bullet point, then add additional > bullets with tab. If I wanted a line without a bullet I could just > backspace after using enter to start the new line. > > Does this make sense? > > David Gifford > Mexico team leader, Mexico City > > *Resonate Global Mission* > *Engaging People. Embracing Christ.* > A Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church > resonateglobalmission.org > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:31 AM, TonyM <anthony.mus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> I understand if you do not see where I am coming from, it is a slight >> digression. But to me it solves the same problem by different means, >> perhaps you have some preferences or unstated requirements my solution does >> not help you with. >> >> The point is one can highlight any piece of wiki text and add * : to >> lines one or more times to indent bullets. >> >> A value of this method is such lines act as paragraphs (ending with enter >> not <br><br>) and wrap just the way we want. All that remains is to do this >> without bold as in the ";" so we can precede every line with that character >> and they behave as paragraphs. By having the same character also indent one >> tab level after the first we we can simply add and remove that character as >> desired. >> >> In the following example I have also followed the ":" with a css class >> and this works if you define .q and .a in a style sheet >> >> ;Hello >> :.q Question >> ::.a answer >> >> This means you could use css to insert an icon of your choice and other >> styling. >> >> The : and * will indent long the text correctly. >> >> Mohammad also pointed out this tip >> >> * One >> * """ Two >> This is a muliline item! >> """ >> * Third >> >> But the multi-line can't contain More bullets. >> >> >> Regards >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> On Friday, 10 August 2018 12:13:28 UTC+10, David Gifford wrote: >>> >>> Hi Tony and Mat >>> >>> Maybe I am not understanding you, Tony, but adding ; and : and | even on >>> the first line is no improvement over adding * before every line, and there >>> is a button to add * before every line. >>> >>> On another note, when I just tried with text that spills over to the >>> next line, Mat's idea turns out not so good because the second line of the >>> paragraph stays left of the bullet. >>> >>> On Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 8:56:24 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >>>> >>>> David, >>>> >>>> Have you used in wiki text the ; semi-colon and : colon? Please bare >>>> with me on this. >>>> >>>> I do a lot, Here is an example to paste into a tiddler >>>> >>>> ;My Section >>>> :Indented without bullets >>>> ::double indented without bullets >>>> :::triple indented without bullets >>>> >>>> The Colon acts as leading tabs >>>> >>>> Of course the actual bullets work the same >>>> >>>> *Indented without bullets >>>> **double indented without bullets >>>> ***triple indented without bullets >>>> >>>> But the reason I seem to be off topic is because I have crated a >>>> EditorToolBar button that allows me to select multiple rows and add ":" to >>>> the front of each line/paragraph, >>>> This is enough for me to work with content similar to yours. >>>> >>>> All I want now is a leading character like the ";" semi-colon that does >>>> not bold its text but does cause the line to break at the end. Or ideally a >>>> character that does both eg | >>>> >>>> |here >>>> ||one indent >>>> |||Two indent >>>> >>>> here >>>> one indent >>>> two indent >>>> >>>> Then toolbar buttons to add or remove "|" on multiple lines at a time, >>>> and possible make the tab key insert | (at the beginning of the line) in >>>> the editor. >>>> >>>> Make sense? >>>> >>>> Tony >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, 10 August 2018 07:35:04 UTC+10, David Gifford wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all >>>>> >>>>> Well I will be bold and ask - I don't even know if this can be done. I >>>>> remember there was a WYSIWYG plugin, but I stopped using it because it >>>>> prevented me from using the regular edit toolbar buttons. >>>>> >>>>> What would be really cool is if there were a way to create a special >>>>> tiddler type that acts in a way that all new lines rendered as bullet >>>>> points, and all tabs rendered as indented bullet points. In other words, >>>>> bulleted lists that act as they do in Microsoft Word and outliner programs >>>>> like Dynalist and Workflowy. >>>>> >>>>> Why? Because bulleted lists are quite common but always require shift >>>>> + 8 or the wrap button, but the wrap button doesn't take indented bullets >>>>> into account. And because many of us are used to the ease of bullets in >>>>> Word and outliner programs. >>>>> >>>>> I say a tiddler type because obviously there would also be need for >>>>> regular tiddlers for tables and much more that wouldn't work that way. >>>>> >>>>> Is this even possible? Some times I don't know if I am asking for the >>>>> moon or if my ideas are just a 15 minute spells concocted by the wizards >>>>> here. >>>>> >>>>> Blessings >>>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/tiddlywiki/j-CJMrgpU1g/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/ms >> gid/tiddlywiki/2a20d9db-11bf-4e1b-a3ba-54658499cf56%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2a20d9db-11bf-4e1b-a3ba-54658499cf56%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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