Is TW markup in caption field a bad practice?

[barro...@gmail.com]

I did a search but didn't find anything about this.  I accidently invoked TW underlining in a caption field for a sidebar tab label.  It worked but is it a bad idea or practice?  I don't fully know TW's internal working and may not know of all consequences of nonstandard techniques like that.  Thanks as always for everyone's patience.

[TonyM]

Barro..

Even tiddlywiki itself places icon transclusions in some tiddlers caption field 

eg: in the edit button caption =

{{$:/core/images/edit-button}} {{$:/language/Buttons/Edit/Caption}}

Personally I have created menu-item fields which are transcluded with any wikiText you want, at http://tiddlywiki.psat.com.au/mymenus/

I would "go for it", "Suck it and see", "your tiddlywiki is your oyster", you can only break it.

I just test this on my Table of Contents caption

TO''C'' {{$:/core/images/edit-button}}

Regards

Tony

[barro...@gmail.com]

My gratitude for your response, Tony,

With the wikitext markup, I was under the impression it was for the tiddler text body while everything else would be handled by CSS styling and why I was thinking the markup wouldn't mix well.  I am doing like you suggest and going with it.  Basically that's how I'm learning TW, taking what I see all other previous TW'ers done, applying and often tinkering with it.  I do like TW's preview panel which often shows the results as I try them.

I know I could use styling to do the same, but my Windows and browser overrides all styling so unfortunately I have no idea what TW with its basic themes looks like.  That also means I cannot safely alter the visual theme since my TW's with be provided to others with default themes.  That was why I was asking elsewhere about an alternate to highlighting something by text or text background color-- such doesn't work with my system setup.

What does TW with default theme do to indicate the current selected sidebar tab, I cannot tell.  With vertical tabs, one side of the tab edge disappears.

Which makes your suggestion about icons in captions, very interesting -- I could differentiate content tabs from the stock Open, Recent, Tools, More tabs.  Your menu's TW will keep me busy even more. As we often joke with our cats-- Stuff! Things!! Pounce!1!

 

Even tiddlywiki itself places icon transclusions in some tiddlers caption field, 

[TonyM]

Barro...

I sounds seriously odd that "Windows and browser overrides all styling"  I suggest dealing with that before you go down a solution path dictated by such particular circumstances.

This needs a root cause analysis, not constructing solutions that exist in your own browser and perhaps no where else in the universe.

Perhaps share the details, perhaps we can help.

Regards

Tony

[barro...@gmail.com]

Yes seriously odd.. I should had explained better.

Windows theme is Inverted High Contrast (white/light colors on black background).  Firefox implements the system theme and also has styling overrides set.  I cannot work with light colored backgrounds-- massive case of snow blindness (you may have heard of it-- its common with people suffering from diabeties vision loss) and most dark themes out there are low contrast which really make them hard to read like the dark theme FF uses for dev tools, for some reason dev tools refuse to implement the system theme (still working that).  It's a constant task getting programs and such to apply my system theme and to find ways to improve things so I can work better with my computer.

I wasn't too worried about not seeing TW's true theme, my system settings allow me to still be able to use a computer.  Plus I was too busy enjoying everything TW does, this puts what I created previously to shame : )  I already applied TW to writing/video game development and RPG's with 4 different custom applications of TW.  Looking Glass I will be able to show here soon, the others have proprietary information in them.

Screenshots will show yo what I mean and how I see TW.  Last screenshot will explain if my posts are screwy, Google apps such as Groups don't play well with Windows accessibility standards.

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Ciao barro...

Colour palettes in TW largely don't have much awareness of the different vision issues users may have (THERE ARE A LOT OF YOU :).

You might find helpful Thomas Elmiger's ColourAction plugin https://tid.li/tw5/test/bricks.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2FColorAction. It may be a bit difficult to understand? But it has a methodology to get colour right.

Josiah

[barro...@gmail.com]

Hello Josiah

Colour palettes in TW largely don't have much awareness of the different vision issues users may have (THERE ARE A LOT OF YOU :).

yes a similiar situation in reverse, unfortunately my setup disregards palette even if its a dark or inversed theme , I need to whitelist individual sites/files in the browser so it will not apply system theme-- but been too busy tryin all that TW does to be worried about the theme.

 

You might find helpful Thomas Elmiger's ColourAction plugin https://tid.li/tw5/test/bricks.html#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftelmiger%2FColorAction. It may be a bit difficult to understand? But it has a methodology to get colour right.

I shall check it out, Bricks is very interesting