How to add warning macro to my Tiddlywiki

[Dieterv]

I use my TiddlyWiki as some sort of external memory to compensate for my lack of good memory.

Often I am searching for a way to attract my attention to (for instance if I have a tiddler containing all kinds of linux commands, there might be some non-intuitive commands that I need to watch out for). 

Right now I would use something like:

|!Watch out for this:|

To create something eyecatching but that isn't too great.

I found warning and tip macros used on pages like these but using <<.warning "some text">>> does not render for me. I suppose I need to add a macro somewhere and have been trying to find the correct way by digging in to the wiki that I linked above, but cannot find how to make that work.

Any pointers? Thanks!

[Eric Shulman]

On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 3:27:42 AM UTC-7 Dieterv wrote:

I found warning and tip macros used on pages like these but using <<.warning "some text">>>

Many of the macros that start with "." (e.g., "<<.warning>>") have been specially installed on

https://TiddlyWiki.com as part of an "edition", and can be found here:

   $:/editions/tw5.com/doc-macros

If you import that tiddler to your file, you can then use the <<.warning "...">> and <<.tip "...">> macros.

However, you don't actually *need* those macros to display those symbols,

which are already part of the TiddlyWiki core installation, and can be found here:

$:/core/images/warning and $:/core/images/tip

To display those images without installing the TiddlyWiki documentation edition,

you can transclude them directly into your content by writing:

{{$:/core/images/warning}} or {{$:/core/images/tip}}

enjoy,

-e

P.S. Please join us on the new "Talk TiddlyWiki" Discourse server, here: https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/.

It's currently an "experiment", but we hope to transition to it, and away from GoogleGroups, sometime

in the near future.

[Dieterv]

Oh great!

It took me some time to figure out how everything worked, but your explanation helped me to get started. I think I understand now.

In case anyone else needs this, I have created the following tiddler for myself to document how to do this without importing the whole doc-macros tiddler (replace Deevee with any folder name you like):

! Add Warning and tip macro's

* Create a new tiddler, name it `$:/Deevee/macros`

* Add the tag `$:/tags/Macro`

* Past in the following contents:

```

\define .tip(_) <div class="doc-icon-block"><div class="doc-block-icon">{{$:/core/images/tip}}</div>$_$</div> 

\define .warning(_) <div class="doc-icon-block"><div class="doc-block-icon">{{$:/core/images/warning}}</div>$_$</div>

```

* Create another tiddler, name it `$:/Deevee/styles`

* add the tag `$:/tags/Stylesheet`

* paste in the following contents:

```

.doc-icon-block {

border-left: 2px solid <<colour code-border>>;

margin-left: 3em;

padding-left: 0.6em;

position: relative;

}

.doc-block-icon {

position: absolute;

left: -3em;

top: 0.2em;

}

```

[Mohammad Rahmani]

You may also like kookma Classic Notes

http://classic-notes.tiddlyspot.com/

Best wishes

Mohammad

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[Paul Hampshire]

Or you could just use a special html character which might be less text/typing.

There is a "Warning Sign" that will appear in color and can be make larger with headings.