Adam,
Have a look at Marios tocP which uses the "parent" field rather than tags
to build and list a Table of Contents. Comes with a custom new here button.
Also I am using my own custom "new from template tool", I hope to publish
one day.
Regards
Tony
On Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 11:31:20 PM UTC+11, AdamS wrote:
>
> I've come to TiddlyWiki as a potential platform for writing. I'm still
> trying to get it setup to do what I want it to do. I'm not really a
> programmer. So there isn't much I know how to contribute there, but I can
> think of some features that I think would improve ease for writers.
>
> So far, I've included tongerner's sticky tiddlersbar and some of his
> associated plugins for easy navigation.
>
> I've also included OokTech's word counter, which is great. Though I'm
> wondering (as a non-programmer) if there is someway to use the same parser
> that manages the markup vs. visible text distinction to create a word
> counter that just counts visible text.
>
> Some kind of placeholder would be fantastic. Though even just a footnote
> system that incremented automatically and used the form [[superscript 1 |
> tiddler link]] would be great.
>
> Another thing that I think would be useful is an easy to use and navigate
> parent/child relationships that didn't rely on tags but on some kind of
> custom field that got auto-populated with child/parent links. This would be
> useful for version control and editing, I think. First draft being the
> root, and various other versions branching off it. Something like that.
> That, in cunjunction with tiddlymap would be a wonder.
>
> Tongerner also has a "new template tiddler" button. I wonder if that could
> be adapted to easily make multiple new custom template buttons for
> initializing different kinds of tiddlers with ease.
>
> I realize this is turning into a sort of feature wishlist. Sorry about
> that.
>
> The only other thing that springs to mind is a clone of The Most Dangerous
> Writing App. For those who haven't used it, it's a web app in which you
> must type constantly for some set amount of time (say 5 minutes) and if you
> stop typing for more than three seconds, it erases everything you've
> written. That, combined with custom template tiddlers, so you could
> initialize a Most Dangerous Writing App tiddler that would then become a
> normal tiddler (preserving your text) once the time limit had been reached.
>
> Any suggestions of where I could look, or how I could help in making
> something like this are most welcome!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
>
> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:28:56 PM UTC+1, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>
>> Ciao Mark S.
>>
>> I am still playing around with this and thinking about it. I think its
>> *really* good.
>>
>> More than anything its suggestive of a potential full design to be able
>> to handle "placeholders" of all types. So you don't need a footnote plugin,
>> or a stretch-text plugin, or manually typing commands for inline v. block
>> transclusion, or ferreting around for transcluded Tiddler that hasn't been
>> created yet. You have one in-line interface that handles it all.
>>
>> It looks to me as if this one approach could, maybe, handle the whole
>> shbang?
>>
>> I'll comment more fully later.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Josiah
>>
>> On Sunday, 16 September 2018 00:04:45 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's a start that has most of the mentioned features:
>>>
>>> \define linkfullname() $(target)$!!linktype
>>> \define makelink()
>>> <$reveal type="nomatch" state="""$(target)$!!caption""" text="">
>>> <$set name=title tiddler="""$(target)$""" field="caption">
>>> <$link to="$(target)$"><<title>></$link>
>>> </$set>
>>> </$reveal>
>>> <$reveal type="match" state="""$(target)$!!caption""" text="">
>>> [[$(target)$]]
>>> </$reveal>
>>> \end
>>> \define maketrans() <$transclude tiddler="""$(target)$""" mode="block"/>
>>> \define makeedit() {{$(target)$||$:/core/ui/EditTemplate}}
>>> \define tle(target)
>>> <$set name="target" value="""$target$""">
>>> <$reveal type="nomatch" text="yes" state="$:/state/publish">
>>> <$radio tiddler="""$target$""" field=linktype value="link">L</$radio>
>>> <$radio tiddler="""$target$""" field=linktype value="trans">T</$radio>
>>> <$radio tiddler="""$target$""" field=linktype value="edit">E</$radio>
>>> <$reveal type="match" text="link" state=<<linkfullname>>>
>>> <<makelink>>
>>> </$reveal>
>>> <$reveal type="match" text="trans" state=<<linkfullname>>><br/>
>>> <<maketrans>>
>>> </$reveal>
>>> <$reveal type="match" text="edit" state=<<linkfullname>>><br/>
>>> <<makeedit>>
>>> </$reveal>
>>> </$reveal>
>>>
>>> <$reveal type="match" text="yes" state="$:/state/publish">
>>> <$transclude tiddler="""$target$""" mode="block"/>
>>> </$reveal>
>>> </$set>
>>> \end
>>>
>>> $:/state/publish
>>>
>>> Publish?
>>> <$radio tiddler="$:/state/publish" field="text" value="yes">Yes</$radio>
>>> <$radio tiddler="$:/state/publish" field="text" value="no">No</$radio>
>>>
>>> ----
>>> <<tle "Your tiddler title here">>
>>>
>>> "tle" stands for "Transclusion, Link, Edit". The "edit" part is clumsy
>>> since it just uses the edit template without mods to make it flow in the
>>> current river. But it basically works and might serve as a start. The
>>> "link" element defaults to using the caption if available so you can write
>>> more descriptive titles without having to break links. It actually creates
>>> the tiddlers just by clicking on the corresponding radio button. It does
>>> this because it stores the current tle setting in the target tiddler. You
>>> can put more <<tle>> macros into sub-tiddlers displayed via transclusion,
>>> allowing a kind of sub-structure if you want. Though in general I think I
>>> would just let the top tiddler provide the structure.
>>>
>>> This requires TW 5.1.15 or higher.
>>>
>>> Have fun,
>>> -- Mark
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 10:39:08 AM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nice!
>>>>
>>>> The next step would be to have a button next to each item that allows
>>>> you to switch from link to transclusion. And/or a small link when
>>>> displayed
>>>> as a transclusion so you could quickly edit the text. The current status
>>>> would be stored in a flag in the tiddler. The macro might also need a way
>>>> to display different text when linking. And also default to using caption
>>>> (ala uni-links) when no link description is given. There would also be a
>>>> master configuration tiddler for final publication that only shows the
>>>> transcluded results with no buttons.
>>>>
>>>> These ideas are motivated by the need to move quickly between edit/view
>>>> modes, and the fact that there is no easy way to change the contents of
>>>> macros (or links) globally. So once you've created a title, it's easiest
>>>> to
>>>> stick with it though you may want it to be displayed differently.
>>>>
>>>> -- Mark
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 9:37:02 AM UTC-7, BurningTreeC wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just adding my 2cents with an idea:
>>>>>
>>>>> a small macro that displays a link if the tiddler is missing, but
>>>>> transcludes the tiddler if it's not:
>>>>>
>>>>> in a macro-tiddler:
>>>>>
>>>>> \define trl(text)
>>>>> {{$text$||transcludilinktemplate}}
>>>>> \end
>>>>>
>>>>> in the "transcludilinktemplate":
>>>>>
>>>>> <$list filter="[<currentTiddler>is[missing]]">
>>>>> <$link to=<<currentTiddler>>><<currentTiddler>></$link>
>>>>> </$list>
>>>>> <$list filter="[<currentTiddler>!is[missing]]">
>>>>> <$transclude/>
>>>>> </$list>
>>>>>
>>>>> ... call it with <<trl "tiddler title">> and it's a link as long as
>>>>> the tiddler doesn't exist and it transcludes it when it does, neat!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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