Hi there,
I'm trying to play with the capabilities of AliasPlugin [1]. So far, I have been successful to make aliases as shortcuts to smileys like
<<alias :) [img[smile]]>> (where the tiddler smile is an uploaded image via TiddlySpace)
or as shortcuts to simplify complex syntaxes like
<<alias pop @@position:relative;+++^30em^[%0]%1===@@>> (prerequisite: NestedSlidersPlugin; where the "position:relative" is a trick to make the floatingPanel right under the button on TiddlySpace)
I was trying to extend the usage of alias shortcuts further by defining aliases to render HTML snippets. For example, as with a div with an image as its background, the HTML code would be something like:
<div style="background-image: url(http://domain.com/image.jpg); width: XXXpx; height: YYYpx;>abracadabra</div>
and I hope to use an alias
<<alias imgdiv "<div style="background-image: url(%0); width: %1px; height: %2px;>%3</div>">>
so that I can just type
<<imgdiv http://url.of.the/image XXX YYY abracadabra>>
to create the same div as above.
However, in my experiment, when I put this <<imgdiv>> in the <html>...</html> statement block (with HTMLFormattingPlugin installed, for TiddlyWiki syntax to be mixed within the HTML block), the alias just throws out the text of
<div style="background-image: url(http://domain.com/image.jpg); width: XXXpx; height: YYYpx;>abracadabra</div> (with the URL wikified!), but not making the real div element.
I've also tried to make a simpler alias to insert
<p>0%</p>, and again, only the literal
<p>Parameter input</p> is rendered.
Is it ever possible to make aliases substituting working HTML elements instead of displaying the literal codes?(I have also tried to make aliases as shortcuts to insert something like "rowspan='%0'" to help simplify the syntax of MediaWikiTableFormatterPlugin [2], also in vain. I guess it's because the aliases cannot be rendered *before* the formatters?)
[1]
http://www.tiddlytools.com/#AliasPlugin[2]
http://devpad.tiddlyspot.com/#MediaWikiTableFormatterPlugin