If you use it as described, it works out of the box. But if you immediately start wanting to do something unconventional like inserting a macro into a link, well, that's what the forum is for. There's lots of documentation. Way more than many other projects I've seen. The problem is, it's not possible to foresee how people are going to want to use TW than it is to foresee how someone is going to want to use a string. One person wants to do macrame, another wants to make a tin-can phone, and someone else wants to make a candle-wick. Very hard to document the 1000 different ways people might go.
It's much easier to document a single-purpose tool like "gpg" or "notepad" then a sprawling octopus of a tool like TW. I would say, if there was one tiny bit of pedantic piece of information I would put at the top of the TiddlyWiki page, it's "You can't mix wikitext inside of wikitext and expect it to work" with maybe a link to https://tiddlywiki.com/#Concatenating%20text%20and%20variables%20using%20macro%20substitution. It's probably the #1 issue that newbies encounter, and a bit of heart-breaker until you figure out your way around it. Have fun! -- Mark On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 11:52:32 AM UTC-8, Jeff Wilson wrote: > > I hope you guys don't mind some criticism. TiddlyWiki should be renamed > FiddlyWiki -- everything seems to require poorly document, or arcane, steps > or copying someone else's code to make things work. The macro suggested > above is an example. Sure, it just embeds an anchor tag into the HTML, but > the reason most people use wikis is to avoid writing HTML. Thus my > assumption that the macro must be able to be embedded in a [[link]]. > > Creating a hierarchy sure looks simple -- just do "New here". But I > couldn't find any documentation that told me that that is what that command > does. > > I agree with others that say that TW5 is pretty powerful, but it isn't for > the average person until some of these things are both better documented, > and a way to access/perform the more complicated things just become > menu-driven or something similar. > > And I'm not a Luddite. I'm fairly technical, but my expectation is that an > end-user tool should make it obvious and easy to do common things. If I > have to put on my 'programmer hat' to figure out how it works, it probably > is too hard. > > > > On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2:22:00 PM UTC-5, S. S. wrote: >> >> Jeff, >> >> There is a nice explanation for using square brackets for external >> linking here : Linking in Wikitext >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Linking%20in%20WikiText> >> >> As far as I know, macros cannot be used inside this form of linking. You >> can assume this is so, unless someone jumps in and corrects me. >> >> Regards. >> >> On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 1:00:32 AM UTC+7, Jeff Wilson wrote: >>> >>> Can the macro be in the body of an external link, like this: >>> >>> [[My PDF file|<<external-document>>]] >>> >>> Or, can I concatenate something to the link, like: >>> >>> [[My PDF file|<<external-document>>#page=7]] >>> >>> -- 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/85c12b90-47f0-45c9-8b1f-5633c2bb1e92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
