The tocP is really handy! Does it also support exclude filter? I am interested to use it in some of my plugins.
--Mohammad On Monday, July 8, 2019 at 5:17:06 PM UTC+4:30, PMario wrote: > > On Monday, July 8, 2019 at 12:56:10 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> There's an unexpected subtlety here: even with quite a small number of >> tags, it is possible for a fully expanded table of contents to have many >> millions of entries. >> > > That's also true for tiddlywiki.com documentation. That's why I think > using tags to create a TOC is not the best way to do it. ... But it's > definitely the easiest. > > >> For example, AMBIT's main wiki (https://manuals.annafreud.org/ambit) has >> just over 1,000 tags but they are so interconnected that a fully expanded >> table of contents had 1.4 million entries when I was doing some experiments >> a few months ago. >> > > That's probably a "worst case" and a "nightmare" scenario. Tags are used > to define a "group" relationship between topics (titles). A TOC table of > contents is used to bring a hierarchical structure to a highly > interconnected system. Both goals are valid, but they are fundamentally > different! > > So IMO you can't have both, if you use tags only. The problem is easy to > solve. Use an eg: parent-field to create a 1 to 1 relation from a "child" > tiddler to the level above, the parent. I'm using this mechanism for the tocP > plugin > <https://wikilabs.github.io/editions/tocP/#test-tocP:test-tocP%20test-tocP-asdf>. > > It allows you to create different hierarchical "tracks" using different > "parent"-field names. > > The advantage is, that *by design no duplicates* can happen. > > >> So, I tend to think an expand-all button should not be part of the core. >> > > That's why I wrote: "at a plugin level"! > > >> Generally, I'm not in favour of adding more and more functionality to the >> core macros because it compromises one of their primary purposes: to act as >> simple examples for people to use as a starting point for their own macros. >> > > That's OK, as long as we prepare the core TOC, to be extendable by > plugins. > > -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 [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/c1693bfd-0f3d-49b4-a343-922cf2fd88e5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
