[TW5] Using variables in a macro

[Chong]

Each topic that I want an article on has several sections, and I break these up into tabs. For example if I want an article about zebras, I'll have separate tiddlers for their physical characteristics, their behaviour, and diet, and then the "Zebra" tiddler just contains all the others in tabs. So this'll just consist of:

<<tabs "[[Zebra - diet]] [[Zebra - behaviour]] [[zebra - physical characteristics]]">>

Problem is I'm going to be writing a lot of these (and there's more than 3 tabs), and I don't want to fill in the name of the animal every time. 

I want to make a template like this:

<<tabs "[[<<title>> - diet]] [[<<title>> - behaviour]] [[<<title>> - physical characteristics]]">>

But it obviously doesn't work (please forgive my ignorance). Anyone know how to do this?

[Eric Shulman]

You can create a macro that takes the animal name as a parameter, and then invokes the <<tabs>> macro using that param value, like this:

\define animaltabs(animal)

<<tabs "[[$animal$ - diet]] [[$animal$ - behaviour]] [[$animal$ - physical characteristics]]">>

\end

Then, just call it like this:

<<animaltabs Zebra>>

<<animaltabs Monkey>>

<<animaltabs Lion>>

etc.

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

ELS Design Studios

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