What about unconventional things like adding a field? -- I can't figure out how to do so from any of the documentation.
Or other unconventional things like creating and displaying an info hierarchy? On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 4:06:26 PM UTC-5, Mark S. wrote: > > 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/d09450c2-4efb-45bc-b909-5722c4c7c5ec%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
