Thank you Sylvain, Tony and all! This is fantastic, I hope it is useful to many other people as well!
It is interesting to read your request. Tell us more how/where you will use > the resulting PDF? > Hi Tony. I have recently started using Polar Bookshelf <https://getpolarized.io/> to manage most of my non-fiction reading. I believe it is partly inspired by the idea of incremental reading <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading>, which I thought was kind of interesting. The reasons I would choose to read TiddlyWiki.com in Polar instead are: 1. I can keep track of what I have and haven't read. Polar allows you to mark what you have read as you go and extract relevant information and convert it into Anki flashcards. 2. I want to keep as much of my reading in the same place as possible. Polar is designed to help you read multiple books at once, and it is easier to keep track of what I am reading if it is all in one repository. This is better organised that any PDF can be. > I completely agree. I have actually built a version of TiddlyWiki.com for the new user but it > includes the ability to take notes and more. > This sounds cool - have you made it available anywhere? If you want to read everything in a wiki, perhaps a button to tag each read > tiddler with a "read" tag. > I can't believe I didn't think of this. This makes my 1st reason kind of irrelevant! I think I would also find it useful to tag sections that I didn't understand to go back to later, and probably a bunch of other useful stuff. If only all books were in tiddlywiki-form! On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 2:13:24 AM UTC+1, 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]. 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