Hi Paul,

Hot off the press is version 5.1.20 which has some math and string 
manipulation functionality (specifically split and join) that might make 
importing and exporting CSV files viable in your use-case. Nothing will be 
super-automagic but tools should be there out of the box and you might find 
a good workflow that has your records stored as tiddlers and sections 
structured as hierarchical tags (see how table of contents work). I believe 
that there are some more advanced plug-ins that handle import and export of 
Excel docs that you might be able to use without building the tools 
yourself.

Also I have has some experience/pain dealing with x.x.x.x type section 
numbering and the "sortan" filter seems to order those correctly.

Footnotes might be problematic (something that I have been struggling with) 
since html doesn't have a fixed concept of page and printing and pagination 
control is a bit sketchy from browsers. Endnotes would be simpler 
alternative.

Good luck,
/Mike

On Monday, August 12, 2019 at 9:53:49 AM UTC-3, Paul Richardson wrote:
>
> Good afternoon, complete beginner here.
>
> I maintain a reference document for my organisation which has some 
> pre-amble and then is essentially a large table. The user looks through the 
> table for their particular area of interest and then is given a particular 
> category/label for their information. The document is also shared with 
> partner ogranisations and suppliers and needs to be presented in a portable 
> format - and it cannot be shared on the internet or in a collaborative 
> manner. The document has three levels e.g. section 1, section 1.1, section 
> 1.1.1 (although in some places 1.1.1.1).
>
> As the document is quite wordy (with footnotes) it is currently maintained 
> in Word, but I would like to move away from this, and have been playing 
> with TiddlyWiki. As I still need to provide the Word version, what I would 
> quite like to do is have a master database (probably in Excel) which then 
> auto-populates the Word document *and* the TiddlyWiki version. 
>
> I am familiar with the principles of markup laguage and I have managed to 
> get as far as getting Excel to generate the code for the table rows, and 
> have successfully pasted these into a tiddler. However I then wanted to get 
> Excel to generate the code for the tiddler itself, (the <div created 
> modified tages title> but when I paste this into the HTML directly (just 
> after the tiddlers I created in tiddlywiki), this doesn't seem to work (and 
> yes I have closed the </div> at the end).
>
> So my immediate question is, which parts of the HTML file do I need to 
> insert code into in order to add a working tiddler?
> My other question is - is my objective even possible or will there be too 
> many other unseen hurdles and complications along the way? 
>
> (I suppose the alternative approach is to maintain the master version in 
> TiddlyWiki and then find a way of exporting the whole document to Word, but 
> it needs to be clean and professional).
>
> Thank you!
>
>

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