You are correct. I am attempting to make the Monstrous Compendium from 2nd ed AD&D into a wiki. Here is a link to the site I am using for my source data. http://lomion.de/cmm/_index.php The site is an almost complete list of all entries from that version of the game. However, it is a horrible resource to search, poorly organized, the links are all over the place and it cannot be searched beyond the index entries. I spend far too much time sifting through the entries and my books looking for the stuff I want.
I started out building an actual data base with LO. But I found it started becoming cumbersome, slow and unstable; probably due to the sheer amount of text. So I turned to personal wiki's. Tiddly seems to be the best option I have found for this. To this point I have learned how to make tabs, tables of contents, tables, and how to format the text and lay things out on my tiddlers. Now I need to figure out how to make the information I use most often searchable; Climate / Terrain, Intelligence, and Hit Dice. I was thinking fields would be the best way to go, but I am finding the information available confusing. Reducing the amount typing, and coding I have to do would be a great bonus but learning how to make my data searchable should probably be the priority. I have not done any serious programming since the 90's. And I hated it then. I would love to find a wysiwyg interface for this. Any help you can give, or point me to a tiddly for dummies type book or site would be greatly appreciated. On Monday, 1 October 2018 04:11:05 UTC-3, [email protected] wrote: > > PWL, > >> >> I have recently started using Tiddly wiki to build a knowledge database >> and I am having difficulty figuring a few things out. I am hoping somebody >> can help. >> >> > I see your project looks RPG/MMORPG related. With patience you'll see > that TW is a great tool for such purposes-- a few individuals here have > applied TW to RPG related purposes. There's a learning curve but its > definitely a worthwhile curve cause everything that TW can do. > > >> This wiki is going to be huge when it is done (4500+) entries. Each >> entry has a list of 14 stats that need to be displayed as a table. I found >> how to build tables, the work perfectly, and I like the look. >> But I have found that it is rather labour intensive to do this every time >> I make a new entry. Is there a macro, or some code, or anything that can >> make this easier for me? >> > > The templates Mark S mention is the best way to cut out the manual table > coding (typing) but templates work best with fields not raw text, which > I'm not sure if you have gotten to learning fields yet. Field value entry > can also be labour intensive but templates again can be used to create > tiddlers with all fields added. > > How far have you gotten with making tiddlers, would be a major time loss > going back to start and starting with templates? Would you already have > this data already on a spreadsheet? there's ways to mass import > spreadsheets into TW, creating tiddlers preformatted. > > Once you get to the search function, I may have something that may help. > -- 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/260f10ae-c732-4502-bfc3-40d5edc51b1a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
