Ah! I see now. I think you'll have to (get someone to) write a plugin for that. I could be wrong though... Maybe someone else here knows.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 12:02 PM David Gifford, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aiden > > Perhaps my original post wasn't clear enough. > > You are correct that stamping what you gave me will SHOW the contents of > the source field of the current tiddler. But if I copy and paste that note > in another tiddler in a totally different file, it will unfortunately show > the contents of the source field of the new tiddler, not the original one. > So I will lose data upon transfer. I want something that grabs the content > of the source field of the original tiddler and stamps it as TEXT, not > stamping stuff like {{}}. > > Thanks again, > > David Gifford > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:20 PM Aidan Grey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure i understand. It should say {{!!source}} in edit mode, but >> when you save the tiddler, it should show the content of the source field. >> It's not doing that? >> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 11:16 AM David Gifford, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Aiden >>> >>> Thanks for the effort. But this is the problem: it stamps {{!!source}} >>> instead of stamping the contents of the source field. So when I copy and >>> paste this to another tiddler, it will show as whatever is in the source >>> field of that tiddler. I need something that stamps the field content as >>> text. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 10:05:48 AM UTC-5, Aidan Grey wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Have you tried {{!!source}}? >>>> >>>> This is how I'd do it, as a stamp. >>>> >>>> >>>> <$action-sendmessage >>>> $message="tm-edit-text-operation" >>>> $param="replace-selection" >>>> text=""" >>>> >>>> <dt></dt><dd> >>>> >>>> <span class="source">- {{!!source}} 'Sound Mapping', p. </span> >>>> </dd><hr> >>>> """ /> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 7:27:38 AM UTC-6, David Gifford wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to combine steps but I can't wrap my head around it. >>>>> >>>>> I would like an editor toolbar button that does three things: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Inserts outer text A >>>>> 2. Grabs and inserts as text the contents of a special field of the >>>>> current tiddler >>>>> 3. Inserts outer text B >>>>> >>>>> I want the final result to look like >>>>> >>>>> <dt></dt><dd> >>>>> >>>>> <span class="source">- resumen de Lee, M. E., 2017 'Sound Mapping', p. >>>>> </span> >>>>> >>>>> </dd><hr> >>>>> >>>>> But where >>>>> >>>>> Lee, M. E., 2017 'Sound Mapping' >>>>> >>>>> is the contents of the source field of the tiddler I am working in, >>>>> and everything before and after wraps around it. >>>>> >>>>> I am getting stamps and buttons and filters and macros all scrambled >>>>> in my brain. >>>>> >>>>> The solutions I have come up with always end up inserting the {{ >>>>> "[[]]" }} or whatever else I use to access the contents of the field. But >>>>> I >>>>> want to insert the actual content of the field as text, so when I transfer >>>>> the above to another tiddler, it will retain the source from the first >>>>> tiddler rather than looking for the source field of the new tiddler. >>>>> >>>>> The use case is for taking notes in a tiddler representing a book. >>>>> Each note is wrapped with the definition list line, and the source is >>>>> added >>>>> automatically at the end of the note. Then I manually transfer the >>>>> content, >>>>> definition list tags and all, to a tiddler (in another Tiddlywiki) >>>>> representing a topic that the note is about. That way I take notes by book >>>>> but organize notes by topic for publishing in definition lists. Then I >>>>> export as static and the end result looks like this >>>>> http://articulos.giffmex.org/evangelios/genero.html. >>>>> >>>>> My current process is A) an editor toolbar button to insert the >>>>> definition list, then B) a separate stamp to insert the contents of a >>>>> 'source' tiddler, and C) change the source tiddler every time I switch >>>>> between books. 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