On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 5:18:20 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: ... > If I understand the proposal correctly, the idea is that one could type > multiline fields into the main textarea of a tiddler with the following > syntax: > > \field my-field > Paragraph 1 > > Paragraph 2 > \end > > Exactly.
> Then, when the user saves the tiddler, the content of the textarea is > parsed, the field value(s) extracted and saved into the tiddler in the > usual way. I’m assuming that the field pragma wouldn’t be replicated in the > text field as well as the specified field? > I don't want to store the content 2 times. So the permanent storage would be the text area. ... The wiki-store json format may only contain a reference, where to find the content. .... .tid file may look something like this title: test-tiddler tags: a b c d my-field: @@@my-field \field my-field(type:binary) 0 \end or something similar. .. Hoping that nobody starts field content with 3 @ :) If a tiddler is saved, the fields are parsed and stored into the internal tiddler store. ... The textarea as a permanent store is needed, since the field content needs to survive a store-to-html / reload round-trip, which is the main problem atm. > Conversely, when initiating editing a tiddler, multiline fields are > prepended to the text of the tiddler and placed in the textarea. > right > If I’ve got that right, my first thought is that the idea of a process to > convert a tiddler back and forth to a single textarea representation is > interesting, and doesn’t present any particular issues if it’s just a UI > thing. > I think, it's not an UI thing only, since multi line fields need to survive the save/reload roundtrip with HTML and the .tid file format. > Re-using the pragma syntax is confusing because this “parsing” is nothing > to do with the main wikitext parser; perhaps it would be clearer to use an > extended .tid file syntax. > I'm sorry about this. ... I just wanted to point out. that there is some code, that can read the existing \define ... pragma. ... So it will be easy to create _new_ code the can parse the multi line definitions. ... No reusing of the existing mechanism involved. have fun! mario -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. 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/22d4667c-1153-4765-b595-35f830a4002d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
