Hi, I'm a recent convert to TiddlyWikis and as such, I'm loving
them. But in the last couple of days, I've been baffled by a strange
behavior from the import function which I was able to trace the
presence of an active ASCIIMathMLPlugin in my TW. The problem can be
reproduced like this:
1. Take a new, empty, 2.3.0 TW and save it in the computer. Launch on
it a new tiddler with the following content:
''Dissertação possível 1''
Acaso os presentes sabem o que significa esta expressão?
{{center{
`Cos²(x)(1+Tan²(x))`}}}
The problem is not exclusive of this content, but I found it to be
sensitive to small changes of it: If I take or change portions of the
text above, it may disappear or remain, but it is still not very clear
to me, what are the exact conditions to it to exist. For example, if I
cut the string "presentes sabem o que significa", it will disappear,
but cutting "presentes sabem o" or "que significa", it may not.
2. Take a second, empty, 2.3.0 TW and save it in the computer. Then
import to it the pluggin "ASCIIMathMLPlugin", save the TW and reload
it.
ASCIIMathMLPlugin is part of a system to able someone to write math
text easily in TW's. The procedure I described is not enough to do
that but it is sufficient to denounce the problem (so, it must be
related with this tiddler specifically).
3. Try to do an import of the first TW to the second. After click on
the open button, the TW will stop after showing the message "Getting
the list of available tiddlers" and will never show that list. Instead
the 2 statements
''Dissertação possível 1''
Acaso os presentes sabem o que significa esta expressão?
...will appear rendered in the main page.
If we disable the plugin, the problem disappear and the list will be
shown. This happens at least on a XP with a FireFox 2.x .
I guess this might be more of a problem for the ASCIIMathMLPlugin
developers, but my point here is other: If the presence of certain
pluggins are enough to disrupt the import process, pluggins which
otherwise would work very well, shouldn't there be a message present
on the first import's step, stating exactly that, that it is advisable
to disable them before any import operation? Ideally, the import
process should disable all the plugins before the operation but
considering that to disable one manually, we must save and reload the
TW manually, I suppose this might not be possible (or else the same
technique would have been applied here too). I'm not seeing this
problem as an ASCIIMathMLPlugin problem alone because, this and other
plugglins might work perfectly otherwise, never to show problems, and
then fail on the import process. And if that happens on a TW full of
Plugings it might be difficult to discover the guilty one, even
because it will hard be to suspect them. And then, why they would
produce problems when in importation, but not in other common uses?
Cheers,
JPA
PS.: Sorry if this problem was already described.I didn't found it.
