Jeff,
The macro instructions given before can be modified to this:
\define external-document(file:{{!!file}} path:{{!!path}} page:{{!!pdf-page-
number}})
\rules except wikilink
<$wikify name="location" text="$path$$file$#page=$page$">
<a href=<<location>> target="_blank">$file$</a>
</$wikify>
\end
Add another new field to your tiddler called: *pdf-page-number*
Give it a value of the page number desired.
Hope that helps.
Regards.
On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 11:54:47 PM UTC+7, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
> What would be really cool is to add a custom field to the TiddlyWiki
> called pdf-page-number, which I could then edit on every page that has a
> link to the PDF. Then the macro or whatever could use the value in that
> field to add the '#page=$pdf-page-number$' suffix to the URL.
>
> This would require that I understand several things:
>
>
> - How does one create a custom field and display it in the editor?
> - How does that change the macro below? Is it as simple as referring
> to the field like a variable, which I believe is $variable-name$?
> - Where does the macro get written in TiddlyWiki, and how do I make it
> available to each page?
>
>
> On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 11:15:25 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote:
>>
>> A Promised example
>>
>> Concatenate to get a link
>>
>> \define doc-link(path name parameters)
>> $path$$name$$parameters$
>> \end
>>
>> <a href=<<doc-link "http://gahp.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/";
>> "sample.pdf" "#page=3">> >My PDF File</a>
>>
>> <a href=<<doc-link "http://gahp.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/"; "sample.
>> pdf" "#page=5">> target=PDFTab >My PDF File</a>
>>
>> In this case we can embed a macro (with parameters) inside HTML.
>>
>> The second example is always going to use the same browser tab/window ( a
>> recent discovery of mine)
>>
>> Regards
>> Tony
>>
>> On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 2:23:06 PM UTC+11, TonyM wrote:
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> We do not mind critsisium, we are always trying to improve things, I
>>> expect the documentation to be easier to improve soon.
>>>
>>> There is however a reason why what you expected did not work, part of
>>> this is using more than one form of coding html, wikitext, macros, css and
>>> behind some macros javascript. One does not always embed in the other
>>> without further consideration. Show me an example elsewhere of this and we
>>> may harvest some ideas.
>>>
>>> When we want to embed one "Language" in another a common practice is to
>>> construct the code in a macro definition. I will try and locate an example
>>> when off my mobile.
>>>
>>> My point is tiddlywiki can stimulate our imagination so much we have
>>> ideas about how it can be, when there are complications that are not so
>>> obviouse, because we have multiple coding methods available at once, in an
>>> always up to date interlinked interactive platform.
>>>
>>> I empathise, and have thought the same way, but I am starting to see how
>>> tiddlywiki raises our expectations to exceed what it currently achives.
>>> Most often a work around exists, or the community starts to digest changes
>>> to come. The key is the community, conversations and change. Its not that
>>> tw is not mature, its that it continues to evolve even although in many
>>> respects it already surpasses the competition in capabilities (if not
>>> simplicity).
>>>
>>> In my view Far too often today, simplicity is the result of the startup
>>> culture, which wants to profit from minimalist solutions, to fund the
>>> development of more comprehencive solutions by charging and taxing their
>>> very same clients. Unnesasary compexity is desirable but not at the cost of
>>> capability, unnessasariily simple things fragment what we need to use into
>>> too many parts.
>>>
>>> TiddlyWiki exists at a point of convergence of multiple technologies and
>>> thus is capable of great divergence as well. In this centre there are
>>> artifacts, but there is also code patterns and methods to address them.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>
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