Idea, It would be quite simple to find all uses of glyphname=symbolname throughout a wiki to provide a Editor toolbar drop down list of existing glyph/symbol definitions and on click insert them at the current location <glyph><symbol><space> so the custom definitions are easier to lookup and select. Self documenting if the symbols are chosen well.
Tony On Sunday, 1 November 2020 11:44:36 UTC+11, TonyM wrote: > > TT, > > I did read your history, it's Quite interesting. And to some extent I > defer to you, but in my return quote I pointed out the "modern" use of > Pilcrow. > > It is interesting to know where the indented 1st line of a paragraph comes > from, something I have never liked the aesthetics of, to be honest. You may > be interested in this > https://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16235-two-medieval-chars.pdf > > What I do hope is in the end we can accommodate different mark-up needs, > and in fact that is the value of this project. That is one reason I > speculated if it were possible to have an end of line only mark-up symbol, > not only because that is the way I would be inclined to use pilcrows, but > to support other end of line annotations. I believe this may already be > achieved with inline mark-up placed at the end of line. One persons end of > line is another's beginning of line anyway, for example I can imagine ﹙¶﹚. > > I could see someone with the interest providing both the plugin and custom > for anyone of these different systems. Not unlike they way a mathematician > may extend tiddlywiki to their own mark-up language to represent complex > maths, perhaps people may do this for old English, newspapers, PageMaker > (One of the first professional printing applications and the use of > postscript > <https://www.hackworth.co/what-is-postscript-and-why-do-almost-all-high-end-printers-support-it/>). > > The key being people can make tiddlywiki their own, in new ways, through > the value of mark-up. Or as an example people preparing medieval style > texts or writing about them. > > One example I am aware of is using custom mark-up to write HTML via > shortcuts. Combined with tiddlywiki's automation I have always seen the > potential for tiddlywiki to be configured to be a site designer and > generator as well, this is where using html elements are helpful. One thing > that excites me a lot is using an "arbitrary html tag" inside a custom > mark-up. Basically it allows the writer to contain custom css and other > "semantically appropriate" sections in the document. Add to this > transclusion and macros an one could potentially generate a website by > filling in some content settings and export (via zip) a whole multi-page > site. Could this be a SquareSpace Wix killer? I have experimented with > connecting to html and external javascript and there is a lot of potential > there for more host interaction, I just do not have the skills yet. > > Yet another thought of late, is in response to filters, logical operators > and the fact that filters handle sets. It seems to me the introduction of > annotation for basic set manipulations would also be helpful. See in the > pre-release https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Filter%20Expression Equivalent > named prefix > > Regards > Tony > > > On Sunday, 1 November 2020 03:57:52 UTC+11, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> TonyM wrote: >>> >>> ¶ >>> I would not bother with the use of pilcrow unless it was part of an end >>> of line form of glyph only. >>> >> >> Pilcrow has a complex history before printing, in printing & on the net. >> They all diverge & overlap. >> >> Essentially the paragraph "mark" is a signal for a "longer pause" in >> thought in all incarnations. >> >> I mention a bit of its history in some comments to PMario above. >> >> Best wishes >> TT >> >> >> > -- 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 tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/90c6224a-82c8-491b-9254-34c6d83b7874o%40googlegroups.com.
