Hi Tony It’s too late to change the interpretation of the icon field without breaking backwards compatibility.
Icon fonts like fontawesome are actually now somewhat controversial, and aren't recommended for contemporary web development: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/ <https://cloudfour.com/thinks/seriously-dont-use-icon-fonts/> https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/its-2019-lets-end-the-debate-on-icon-fonts-vs-svg-icons/ <https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/its-2019-lets-end-the-debate-on-icon-fonts-vs-svg-icons/> https://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/ <https://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/> There are quite a few repositories of SVG icons that work very well with TW5. For example: https://thenounproject.com/ <https://thenounproject.com/> https://www.flaticon.com/ <https://www.flaticon.com/> Best wishes Jeremy. > On 4 Apr 2020, at 00:48, TonyM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > I am always at a loss for icons especially for buttons but also elsewhere. > The Recently update FontAwesome is an example of a good source > There are also hundreds of special characters available such as HTML entities > ☎ 9742 260E BLACK TELEPHONE > We have the icon field that allows us to add svg and bitmaps to tiddlers > What I am wondering is could we refactor the icon mechanism to not only > accept tiddlernames but also allow > fontawesome macros or html entities to be provided? > > eg; > `<fa-lbadge glyph:"fa-font-awesome-flag" fam:"fab">>` > ☎ > It should be easy insofar as there can be triggers such as &# or #x or `<fa` > The trickiest part may be ensuring correct size. > CSS for Icons may also be helpful > > Why? > > Because the icon field promises by its generic naming to offer such a feature > and we could do with ready access to a larger range of Icons > > Regards > Tony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/99c02712-84a8-4118-b665-1f5681d08acb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/99c02712-84a8-4118-b665-1f5681d08acb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/A6E05A8C-79BE-4195-A671-5DF15C81585F%40gmail.com.
