Untested, but this should work (you may need to tweak the path, etc) \define pdflink(name path page) [ext[$name$|files/$path$.pdf#page=$page$]]
Good luck -- Mark On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 4:51:00 AM UTC-8, Jack Stephan wrote: > > Hello, thanks in advance for any help. I'm still quite a new user so I > don't know if I'm phrasing the question in a way that meaningful, but I'll > try my best. I am trying to incorporate all the PDFs from my lectures into > TiddlWiki and link to them and specific pages. Is there a way to use this > form of linking to PDFs: > > [ext[linkName|files/POD_5_MLST.pdf#page=8]] > > and to make the link name (linkName) page number (8) and the PDF title > (POD_5_MLST.pdf) variables in some sort of macro? Ideally the macro would > have three inputs, the desired title (linkName), the primary key of the PDF > tiddler (labelled as field FID) which would call the PDF file name (another > field called filename), and the page number to link to? For example: > > <<pdflink 'Existential Quaintifier' 'POD5' '8'>> > > To illustrate the structure of my PDF tiddlers, here is an example: > fid POD5 > filename POD_5_MLST.pdf > lecturetitle Mathematical Logic & Set Theory > pdf pdf > scode POD > tags [[Principles of Databases]] > tcode > title POD_5_MLST.pdf > type lecture > > Again, thanks for the help. I hope I have explained my question well > enough, but again, I think I am still in the learning phase where it is > difficult to ask the 'right' questions. > -- 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/591d3003-2c95-4ce7-a1bc-f8fa5e83df65%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

