Ah! That makes sense. I'll continue to pass with the triple quotations in the field. Thanks Jeremy!
-Reece On Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 1:08 PM Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Reece > > I'm working on a macro currently that displays the contents of a field as > markdown text that "Picks up" hard line breaks. > > From the documentation on hard line breaks, the site shows that you can > enclose text with triple quotes for it to capture: > > """ > Some > short lines > together > """ > > > The hard line break support in TW5 is implemented as a parser rule that > replaces line breaks with <br> tags. So the above example is exactly > equivalent to typing: > > Some<br/> > short lines<br/> > together > > This renders as "Some short lines together" as expected. In my case I'm > utilizing an $edit-text widget to edit a field that is NOT the text field > so that the data can all be retained in a single tiddler. From the > $edit-text my "skill" field can be edited with hard line breaks but I still > have to wrap the selection with triple quotes to get it to render as I > want. > > Is there any way to pass the need for the triple quotes into a macro? I > would like to not have to perform this manual edit when attempting to get > line breaks as I expect. Ideally I would like to call <<con-display > "skill">> and have the text render with the hard line breaks from any > field, instead of quoting out every field. Is this possible? > > I've tried a few variations on placing the quotes outside/inside the > wikify and I have yet to figure it out. > > > Here’s one way of approaching it. Given a toddler “New Tiddler” containing > the text above (without the triple double quotes): > > <$wikify name="output" output="html" text={{{ [[New > Tiddler]get[text]addprefix["""]addsuffix["""]] }}}> > <<output>> > </$wikify> > > The disadvantage of this approach is that by using the wikify widget we > “flatten” the contents of the field to plain HTML. So you won’t be able to > include TW features that don’t exist in HTML (eg reveal or list widgets). > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > > \define con-display-block($field$) > <$wikify type="text/x-markdown" output="html" mode="block"> > > {{!!$field$}} > > </$wikify> > \end > > > > Thanks, > > -Reece > > -- > 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/b8574cab-6469-417c-976a-3a09e2279162%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b8574cab-6469-417c-976a-3a09e2279162%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/jTFOIlN8A-E/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/4D1AC7ED-0A2F-4AE0-8026-0500E522F927%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4D1AC7ED-0A2F-4AE0-8026-0500E522F927%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAE0y%2BmcOXXGsRwOoEghg-dsvEBXMSeMzuf1_MNSXg7LDr8NU3g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
