So how exactly would this work? I build a template then dump all the stats
into a 'data tiddler' and call it?
On Monday, 1 October 2018 18:14:36 UTC-3, Mark S. wrote:
>
> Although the best long-term solution is probably fields, you might want to
> start with companion data dictionaries. In this approach, each main tiddler
> has a companion dictionary tiddler. The advantage to this approach is that
> the data format on the website is almost formatted as a data dictionary.
> For instance, if you had an "Allin" tiddler then you might have a companion
> Allin-dict tiddler with contents like:
>
> climate-terrain: Temperate or tropical/wilderness or subterranean
> frequency: Uncommon
> organization: Solitary
> activity_cycle: Any
> diet: Omnivore
> intelligence: Average (8-10)
> treasure: 1
> alignment: Neutral
> num_appearing: 1d4
> armor_class: 4
> movement: 6, Sw 15
> hit_dice: 3
> thac0: 17
> num_of_attacks: 1
> damage_attack: See below
> special_attacks: Drowning
> special_defenses: See below
> magic_resistance: Nil
> size: L (10’ tall)
> morale: Elite (13-14)
> xp_value: 270
>
> These are the values from the website, with tabs converted to spaces,
> spaces in the fields (the part before the colons) converted to underscores.
> "no." Converted to "num", and all fields made lower-case because it's so
> easy to make mixed case mistakes.
>
> To reference fields in the dictionary, you use a notation like:
>
> {{Allin-dict##num_of_attacks}}
>
> However, I think this can be adapted for use in the template previously
> described so that "-dict" is automatically applied and a table is
> automatically constructed by the template. It should be easy to convert
> dictionaries like this into fields somewhere down the road.
>
> -- Mark
>
> On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 12:58:46 PM UTC-7, PWL wrote:
>>
>> 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. What I have been doing is copying the
>> text from the page to a tiddler then formatting it, copying the image to my
>> hdd and importing it to the tiddler. Not exactly the most efficient
>> method. But it keeps it all local on my hdd which is a requirement.
>>
>> 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, tags, tables, and how to format the text and
>> lay 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.
>>>
>>
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