ILYA
Much of that can already be done with the excise tool. Have a look in the
editor toolbar.
My specific section could do this for large numbers of paragraphs and help
with reordering.
Regards
Tony
On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 2:48:59 PM UTC+10, ILYA wrote:
>
> > Line or paragraph based excise, WOW!.
>
> > What if we had an excise tool that would automatically generate multiple
> paragraph based tiddlers, tagging them with a named tag (or equivalent), we
> could then quickly extract paragraphs to separate tiddlers in a single
> select step, and use the tag (or equivalent), to reorder them manually.
>
> This would be great it would help me to fix following workflow. I often
> start from a single tiddler with multiple list of items (ProjectA).
>
> ! Requirements
>
> * item2
> * item3
>
> ! Features
>
> * item3
> * item4
>
> ! Decissions
>
> * item5
> * item6
>
> Then at some point I need to reference one of the items. So I manually
> create 3 tiddlers (group tiddlers) and transclude them in ProjectA
>
> * ProjectA/Requirements
> * ProjectA/Features
> * ProjectA/Decissions
>
> I paste following into each one of them.
> ```
> <<list-links "[tag{!!title}sort[]]">>
> ```
>
> Then the hardest part is to convert each line from initial tiddler into a
> new separate tiddler tagged with one of the group tiddlers.
>
> Best regards,
> ILYA
>
> On 3 October 2019 17:06:51 GMT-07:00, TonyM <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> Mark and c pa,
>>
>> Thanks for your ideas. C pa, The idea of sorting the selection as words
>> is interesting and one I would like to keep up my sleeve, however I need to
>> get a hybrid of yours and Marks to sort the lines, keeping the line breaks.
>> It's about sorting lines, in fact it will help sort lines beginning with *
>> , # or even ":" to make bulleted/indented lists alphabetical or sort text
>> as keys about to be pasted into a data tiddler etc...
>>
>> *Further issues arising*
>>
>> *Regex as a way to include special characters like line breaks*
>> This prompts me to ask can we use regex to insert a line break where we
>> want in a filter. ie rather than search or transform text/titles with regex
>> can it be used to generate special characters into the filter output?
>>
>> *Line handling in filters and sorting primitives*
>> This makes me question why we do not have the primitives needed for
>> handling rows/lines and sorting them, in filters and sorting tools outside
>> of the filters. This is all simple javascript, I expect already contained
>> within tiddlywiki just not surfaced for users and designers.
>>
>> You answers and this problem also dovetails with a project to have a
>> leading period "." to render a line in html p tags. We could sort
>> paragraphs as well, this sounds a little odd but it depends what the
>> paragraphs are.
>>
>> *Line or paragraph based excise, WOW!.*
>> What if we had an excise tool that would automatically generate multiple
>> paragraph based tiddlers, tagging them with a named tag (or equivalent), we
>> could then quickly extract paragraphs to separate tiddlers in a single
>> select step, and use the tag (or equivalent), to reorder them manually.
>> Since they are related by tag the generated tiddlers can be renamed and or
>> given captions separately. In this case after excise we would insert into
>> the source tiddler the list macro to display the paragraphs so tagged. If
>> desired this list could have a template= added to handle the way each
>> paragraph is displayed, including the possibility of making them drag drop
>> reordered in the source tiddler. Even better is the template would be
>> selectable and you could use an edit template, or view template from inside
>> the source tiddler.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Tony
>>
>> On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 9:24:53 AM UTC+10, c pa wrote:
>>>
>>> OK this works.
>>> This copies the selected text into a temp tiddler, then sorts the text
>>> in the temp tiddler. (That returns a title list) Then joins the list with
>>> spaces
>>>
>>> title: _cpa/ui/EditorToolbar/sort-text
>>> tags: $:/tags/EditorToolbar
>>> caption: Sort Selected Text
>>> condition: [<targetTiddler>!has[type]]
>>> [<targetTiddler>type[text/vnd.tiddlywiki]]
>>> description: Button to sort the selected text
>>> icon: $:/core/images/bold
>>>
>>> text:
>>> <$action-sendmessage
>>> $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
>>> $param="excise"
>>> title="$:/temp/sort-text"
>>> macro="x"
>>> />
>>> <$action-sendmessage
>>> $message="tm-edit-text-operation"
>>> $param="replace-selection"
>>> text={{{ [list[$:/temp/sort-text!!text]sort[]join[ ]] }}}
>>> />
>>>
>>>
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