Folks, I have built a Linear Table Of Contents that appears in a single tiddlywiki, such as it would create a single tiddler with the content from the Table Of Contents. Its working well, but It fails due to the size of tiddlywiki.com (offline copy).
I can list all the titles but if I transclude the content for each tiddler on clicking "done, the result is never displayed. The Wiki seems to freezes, and closing the browser the only option. I wonder if there are some settings that would allow it to work. Regards Tony On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 11:13:24 AM UTC+10, TonyM wrote: > > Hi Tam, > > It is interesting to read your request. Tell us more how/where you will > use the resulting PDF? > > As Mat points out TiddlyWiki.com is non-linear, it is not a book, it makes > full use of an interactive table of contents, search and optional paths. > This is better organised that any PDF can be. I have actually built a > version of TiddlyWiki.com for the new user but it includes the ability to > take notes and more. > > Unless you plan to print your PDF can I ask where will you read your PDF > that you can't instead open the tiddlywiki itself? If you want to read > everything in a wiki, perhaps a button to tag each read tiddler with a > "read" tag. > > *Sticking to your original request.* > If we come up with a good solution, perhaps others will also use this, not > just for tiddlywiki.com. > > Ideally if we could export it to pdf with the chapter headings in the > contents of the pdf and then use the search within pdf it may be almost as > easy to read it in pdf. This may actually be possible by generating a HTML > tiddler/file with the correct use of headings and sections etc... and > feeding this into a good html to PDF converter. > > But this could need lots of work, but it could be a worthwhile investment > as it would be a way to publish the content of TiddlyWiki as a book, and > some authors may want this. With careful design the one wiki could contain > both the draft and revised versions of a book. > > *Quick and easy* > The quick and easy way is to create a tiddler which transcludes all the > content you want to package in your PDF, open that tiddler in a new window > and use the browsers print function to print to PDF (assuming you have > installed a "print to pdf" printer). Note however to do the whole > TableOfContents can be a disaster. see *Transcluding the content you want > to package in your PDF* > > *Transcluding the content you want to package in your PDF* > Mark and Sylvain address this in this thread, but the idea of say using > the TableOfContents to generate this view may be compromised by some loops, > ie a lower tiddler referencing a higher tiddler, resulting in a loop. > > I have a design pattern I am keen to explore that iterates the whole Table > of Contents (TOC) adding a branch field to each tiddler, that contains the > path from the Top of the TOC to the current tiddler. If you come to the > same tiddler and it already contains a branch then a reference to the > tiddler in its branch is given to stop any infinite loops, and repeating > content. The Branch could be use as bread crumbs as well. We could also use > the kin operator to list all tiddlers not in the TOC as appendices. > > So I am working on this now. > > Regards > Tony > > On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 2:52:11 AM UTC+10, tam wrote: >> >> I am planning to spend a bit of time learning how to use TiddlyWiki in >> more depth and I have tried to get the documentation >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/>in a PDF format. >> >> At first I thought it would be easy - just "Export all" as static HTML >> then convert to a PDF. Of course this gives me all the tiddlers in >> alphabetical order. This is not much good to me, ideally I would need them >> to be in *roughly* the order they appear in the contents menu of >> tiddlywiki.com. >> >> Is there anyway to do this? (I'm guessing probably not). >> >> Thanks! >> > -- 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/d8555737-f8ff-4b28-9200-cf9debac3b0c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
