Syntax to highlight text

[Klaas Vaak]

The only syntax I have seen mentioned is @@text@@, but it does not work.

[Mat]

https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Styles%20and%20Classes%20in%20WikiText

<:-) 

[Klaas Vaak]

Coloured background, which is what your link directs to, is not the same as highlight.

On 2020-Apr-09, at 19:47, Mat <matia...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#Styles%20and%20Classes%20in%20WikiText

<:-) 

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[Mat]

Klaas Vaak wrote:

Coloured background, which is what your link directs to, is not the same as highlight.

What is highlight then?

Still, the link also instructs how to apply a css class, so you can define a custom class to "highlight" - assuming you know some css. (As noted, I don't understand what "highlight" means so I can't create the class for you.)

<:-)

[Klaas Vaak]

Highlight is giving a background colour to a word or phrase, like you do when e.g. reading a report and you highlight words in yellow; yes you can highlight a whole sentence while reading the report, but usually it is a word or a phrase and people use a felt-tipped marker.

What is on the page you linked to is colouring, “highlighting” if you like, a whole block. I am looking for the word highlighting. Usually it consists of putting symbols on either side of a word, like e.g. italics or bold.

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[Mat]

Well, I think "highlighting" is actually just background coloring with a faint color :-)

There is no direct wikitext highlighting which is what I think is what you're after, but I made a github request for this (...some time ago, ehm) so give it a thumbs up.

So, for now, I'm afraid you'll have to something like @@background:#FF9; this@@.

OR you can check out the very recently announced Dynanote plugin that might do exactly what you're after. See release notes in the prerelease.

<:-)

[Mohammad]

You may know the mark tag works out of the box! So in your tiddler you can have

<mark> you text goes here</mark>

You can also use Shiraz plugin which has a css framework for Tiddlywiki

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[Mat]

<mark> you text goes here</mark>

Aha - is that a native browser thing or a TW thing? Cos if it is native html, then we certainly should have it converted to @@this@@ in wikitext.

Klaas, a shorter thing than <mark> might be a made up html tag, say "h", like so:

<h>foo</h>

...as set in a stylesheet with:

h {background:#FF9}

<:-)

[Mohammad]

On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 12:55:30 AM UTC+4:30, Mat wrote:

<mark> you text goes here</mark>

Aha - is that a native browser thing or a TW thing? Cos if it is native html, then we certainly should have it converted to @@this@@ in wikitext.

This is native html5 tag!

 

Klaas, a shorter thing than <mark> might be a made up html tag, say "h", like so:

<h>foo</h>

...as set in a stylesheet with:

h {background:#FF9}

<:-)

also you can a macro like

<<h foo>>

and 

\define h(txt) <span style="background:#FF9" >$txt$</span>

or

\define h(txt) <mark>$txt$</mark>

[TonyM]

Folks,

I will just add there is an editor toolbar button for highlighting the applies the following

@@background-color:yellow;  Text@@

http://tongerner.tiddlyspot.com/#Highlight%20button%20plugin

Remember the @@XXX wrapps@@ text but the XXX needs to be a style or class as listed here https://tiddlywiki.com/#Styles%20and%20Classes%20in%20WikiText

Its not so hard to make your own toolbar options, so you could add buttons for different colours.

the new prerelease has the new freelinks plugin to automatically create links from any tiddler title, without having to type double square brackets or use CamelCase.

You could just create a title with the highlighted text and the same text will be highlighted where ever it is used with freelinks active. You could do this when typing content by using the excise tool to create a link to a tiddler. It

Regards

Tony

[Klaas Vaak]

Mat, thanks, @@background:#FF9; text@@ works, although the hex value can also be replaced by the word for the colour, as per TonyM’s reply.

TonyM, thank you for that.

Mohammad, <mark>text</mark> works well and is the simplest. The default colour setting is yellow, so if one wants a different colour Mat’s/TonyM’s syntax would be required.

Many thanks guys.

On 2020-Apr-10, at 03:42, TonyM <anthony...@gmail.com> wrote:

background-color:yellow;  Text@@

[Mohammad]

On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 8:46:07 AM UTC+4:30, Klaas Vaak wrote:

Mat, thanks, @@background:#FF9; text@@ works, although the hex value can also be replaced by the word for the colour, as per TonyM’s reply.

TonyM, thank you for that.

Mohammad, <mark>text</mark> works well and is the simplest. The default colour setting is yellow, so if one wants a different colour Mat’s/TonyM’s syntax would be required.

mark tag also lets you to set properties like below

<mark style="background:bisque;">Hi</mark>

By the if you can use macro as I wrote above, macro is the simplest! like below

\define h(txt, color:#FF9) <mark style="background:$color$>$txt$</mark>

Then these are valid

<<h Hi>>

or 

<<h Hi bisque>>

 

Many thanks guys.

On 2020-Apr-10, at 03:42, TonyM <anthon...@gmail.com> wrote:

background-color:yellow;  Text@@

[Klaas Vaak]

Thanks for that additional input, Mohammad.

Where would I have to put the macro code? In each tiddler text box?

On 2020-Apr-10, at 07:55, Mohammad <mohammad...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 8:46:07 AM UTC+4:30, Klaas Vaak wrote:

Mat, thanks, @@background:#FF9; text@@ works, although the hex value can also be replaced by the word for the colour, as per TonyM’s reply.

TonyM, thank you for that.

Mohammad, <mark>text</mark> works well and is the simplest. The default colour setting is yellow, so if one wants a different colour Mat’s/TonyM’s syntax would be required.

mark tag is also let you to set properties like below

<mark style="background:bisque;">Hi</mark>

By the if you can use macro as I wrote above, macro is the simplest! like below

\define h(txt, color:#FF9) <mark style="background:$color$>$txt$</mark>

Then these are valid

<<h Hi>>

or 

<<h Hi bisque>>

 

Many thanks guys.

On 2020-Apr-10, at 03:42, TonyM <anthon...@gmail.com> wrote:

background-color:yellow;  Text@@

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[Mohammad]

You can create a new tiddler like

title: whatever you like e.g.  mymacros

tag: $:/tags/Macro

text:

\define h(txt, color:#FF9) <mark style="background:$color$>$txt$</mark>

save it. This is then called a global macro and you can call it everywhere you like

You can add more macros to above tiddler.

I may recommend to have a look at https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/

and specially this part:

https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/#Tutorial%20Text%20Utilities

Good luck

Mohammad

On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 10:16:54 AM UTC+4:30, Klaas Vaak wrote:

Thanks for that additional input, Mohammad.

Where would I have to put the macro code? In each tiddler text box?

On 2020-Apr-10, at 07:55, Mohammad <mohamma...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 8:46:07 AM UTC+4:30, Klaas Vaak wrote:

Mat, thanks, @@background:#FF9; text@@ works, although the hex value can also be replaced by the word for the colour, as per TonyM’s reply.

TonyM, thank you for that.

Mohammad, <mark>text</mark> works well and is the simplest. The default colour setting is yellow, so if one wants a different colour Mat’s/TonyM’s syntax would be required.

mark tag is also let you to set properties like below

<mark style="background:bisque;">Hi</mark>

By the if you can use macro as I wrote above, macro is the simplest! like below

\define h(txt, color:#FF9) <mark style="background:$color$>$txt$</mark>

Then these are valid

<<h Hi>>

or 

<<h Hi bisque>>

 

Many thanks guys.

On 2020-Apr-10, at 03:42, TonyM <anthon...@gmail.com> wrote:

background-color:yellow;  Text@@

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[Klaas Vaak]

Thanks a lot Mohammad :-)))

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