In another discussion <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/3195>,
@Jermolene wrote:
I'd love to find a suitable, concise wikitext syntax for plain text
> wikification.
So, taking a more general approach to *formatting output*, I'd like to know
how y'all feel about these ideas:
We're all familiar with *template transclusion* syntax which, from an end
users POV, "re-formats the output" to match that of the template.
{{mytransclusion||mytemplate}}
The following proposal extends this {{*||*}} syntax.
The equivalent of "tiddler type" formats could be applied to transcluded
output, for example text/plain and image/png
{{mytranscl||/plain}}
{{mytranscl||/png}}
i.e regardless of type in the original *mytranscl* tiddler, the current
output is in the specified format - an *"output type"*.
Also other output types could be introduced, for example
{{!!title||/link}}
Incidentally, this specific format could spare us from the frequently
recurring mouthful
<$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link>
The latter is not intuitive and the more intuitive use of {{!!title}}
instead of the viewwidget risks side effects
<https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1880> that are difficult
to notice!.
*Style classes* - another "formatting of output" - could be applied using
equivalent syntax:
{{mytranscl||.myclass}}
Yes, we already have
@@.myclass
{{mytranscl}}
@@
...but, frankly, I'm not very fond of it and it feels like a half measure
step from
<div class="myclass">
{{mytranscl>>
</div>
For macros and tiddler links?
"Output types" could probably be useful also for macros and tiddler links.
I have not quite thought this one through)
<<mymacro||/plain>>
<<another "foo"||.mystyle>>
[[mytitle||.mystyle]]
[[mytitle|pretty||.mystyle]]
...
*An optional syntax* instead of {{*||*}} might be {{*}*} , i.e to declare
the output type or style inside the last (or first) bracket pair. The
output types are a limited and predefined set so we'd have a set of closing
delimiters instead of just the single one. I always felt these "between the
brackets" positions were under used in wikitext. We could use these
positions for arguments or flags or stuff to {do{transclusion}things} or
[apply[mytitle]stuff] in the middle of the text.
Thoughts?
<:-)
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