WHitWoT #8 (Feb 20-March 4, 2008)
Daniel Baird
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/2008/04/whitwot-8-feb-20-march-4-2008.html )
WHitWoT #8 (Feb 20-March 4, 2008)
Welcome to the 8th edition of "What Happened in the World of
TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.
WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing
list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.
The WHitWoT team has had a few weeks of too-busy, so here's a bumper
two-week issue to start catching up.
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!News and Stuff
!!!!Major new release of TWAB (TiddlyWiki Address Book)!
Vincent DiBartolo announced version 2.0 of TWAB -- the TiddlyWiki
Address Book. It adds some great features such as the ability to
export and import contacts to any CSV format, with preset formats for
Google, Yahoo, MSN and Outlook.
TWAB's documentation is among the best I've seen for any TiddlyWiki
vertical. Check it out.
[source] http://www.tiddly-twab.com
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ebc338a9aac9e7a7
In addition, TWAB 2.0 was released using the TiddlyWiki 2.2.4 core.
TWAB user Yvonney requested an update to the 2.3.0 core. Vinny has
since made a 2.3.0-based version of TWAB available.
[source] http://www.tiddly-twab.com/twab-tw230.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/76323807324d3cc4
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!!!!TiddlyWiki for the iPhone
TiddlyWiki uploading legend BidiX announced his new
UploadTiddlerPlugin, which works like his well-known UploadPlugin but
gains a huge performance boost by uploading individual tiddlers as
they are modified, rather than the entire TiddlyWiki every time.
UploadTiddlerPlugin is particularly useful in BidiX's iTW. iTW is a
TiddlyWiki with the look and feel of an iPhone application, built to
run in iPhone Safari. With UploadTiddlerPlugin, your TiddlyWiki is
usable via your iPhone anywhere, even when you're using the iPhone's
slow EDGE connection to the internet.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c8881c147f8593f9
[source] http://TiddlyWiki.bidix.info/
[source] http://itw.bidix.info/
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!Online Discussions
!!!!Styling buttons in a specific tiddler
Alex Hough wanted to remove the thin border around a button in a
specific 'TEST' tiddler -- e.g. using
<<newTiddler label:'Name_of_button' title:'Title_new_tiddler' tag:
tag_new_tiddler>>
FND explained that this was a CSS specificity issue that could be
solved adding a line in a StyleSheet type tiddler, such as
#tiddlerTEST a.button { border: none; }
He added that such issues were mentioned[1] in the TiddlyWiki.org
community wiki.
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/1b1d59437c70f7f4/
[1] http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Tiddler-Specific_Styles
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!!!!Using angle brackets in macro parameters
Nicolas Syssoieff wanted to customise his newTiddler button so that
new tiddlers would come with some help text inside. He had a "hints"
tiddler, so adding the tiddler macro into new tiddlers would do the
trick, but because of the angle brackets, it was hard to tell the
newTiddler macro to include the tiddler macro properly.
Nicolas tried
<<newTiddler text:"<<tiddler Hints>>">>
but this didn't work. Luckily two answers to escape the >> were given:
* by FND: <<newTiddler text:{{"<<tiddler Hints>" + ">"}}>>
* By Eric Shulman: <<newTiddler text:{{"<<tiddler Hints>\>"}}>>
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/db62515a7f510b91
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!Quick Shots
open a local TiddlyWiki from the command line:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b32da7f16e1ef117
give a long tiddler a clickable table of contents:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/7682a608dce07fca
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!!!Postdrivel
Every story in this edition came from WHitWoT's contributing writer,
ocalTW. Thanks, ocal!
;Daniel
!!!About WHitWoT
WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google
Group by the WHitWoT team. Editor Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki
fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame,
and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still
there.
Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki