Howto write a book with TD

[Mario Daniel Carugno]

Hi there !

I'm starting to use TD more, and reading the great documentation.

One of the points of interest for me, is in the tiddler

Some of the things you can do with TiddlyWiki

Where one of the items is 'Write a book'.

I wonder, if anyone could do this, how to do write a book with TD.

Is there some special macro or plugin ?

Could I arrange chapters and the make a pdf or ebook ?

Thanks in advance !

Mario

[c pa]

Mario,

TiddlyWiki is not set up to write a book out of the box because there are so many methodologies out there. But, once you've decided on a methodology you can write macros to help you follow that method.

Let's say you want to use an outliner to write your book, meaning you create an outline and then fill in the details. The bottom level details would be the text of your book, with the outline forming the chapters and sections

1. Create a tiddler named "My Book" with the text <<toc "My Book">>
2. Save the tiddler (It seems empty)
3. Click on the V (More actions) menu item and click "New Here"
4. Title this tiddler "Chapter 1 - Captain Blargh gets the scurvy"
5. Save (Notice that "My Book" now says "Chapter 1 - Captain Blargh gets the scurvy" and if you click on "Chapter 1 - Captain Blargh gets the scurvy" it opens the tiddler
6. Click on the V (More actions) menu item in "Chapter 1" and click "New Here"
7. Title this one "Section 1 - Introducing Captain Blargh" and save (Section 1 - Introducing Captain Blargh shows up in My Book under Chapter 1)
8. Add Chapter 2, 3 , 4 etc, and Sections 1,2,3 in each section so that the titles of each section outline the plot of your book
9. Go down as far as you want with the outline. When you get to the bottom, start typing the text of your book in each leaf node tiddler.
10. Now its time to print out your book. That macro doesn't come with the core TiddlyWiki

Now we ask the question . . .
Has anyone out there written a macro to display the contents of a table of contents like this so Mario can display his book?
I'm guessing we'd want each Chapter to be <h1> sections <h2> etc. Displaying the Chapter and section text in block quotes or italics and then the text nodes with no heading.
Probably also want to set some standard tags for chapter, section, heading, text etc.

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