Book references

[Jon]

Hi,

In a datatiddler called 'Footnotes', I have a series of book references e.g.

myref1: The Greek Myths, Robert Graves

To make reference to the book in another tiddler I use Mohammed's Refnotes

<<fnote  "{{Footnotes##myref1}} p.19">>

Then in a tiddler titled The Greek Myths, Robert Graves

{{{[!is[system]regexp:text[{{Footnotes##myref1}}]]}}}

shows the names of those tiddlers, as links, which contain a reference to the book

(I don't know if this is the most elegant way of doing this)

I was wondering, is it possible to extract the page number as well, to somehow create a list of the page numbers for myref1?

Regards

Jon

[A Gloom]

Jon

shows the names of those tiddlers, as links, which contain a reference to the book
(I don't know if this is the most elegant way of doing this)
I was wondering, is it possible to extract the page number as well, to somehow create a list of the page numbers for myref1?

The page numbers for each footnote entry as entered in the macro?

a wild idea, so warning VOLTAILE & untested..

<$vars ftrpage="Hi">

<<fnote  "{{Footnotes##myref1}} $(ftrpage)$">>

</$vars>

then instead of {{{ }}}

go with a list widget

<$list filter="[!is[system]regexp:text{{

Footnotes##myref1}}"><$link><$view field="title"/></$link><$list filter=for reading vars of each tiddler of the first list/>

</$list>

is there any operators to read variables in a tiddler? I know there is a global (wiki wide) variable display.  https://tiddlywiki.com/#getvariable%20Operator

don't know how it will work but I'm sure someone will yell "Danger!" : D

[Mohammad]

Jon,

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 6:09:50 PM UTC+4:30, Jon wrote:

Hi,

In a datatiddler called 'Footnotes', I have a series of book references e.g.

myref1: The Greek Myths, Robert Graves

To make reference to the book in another tiddler I use Mohammed's Refnotes

<<fnote  "{{Footnotes##myref1}} p.19">>

Then in a tiddler titled The Greek Myths, Robert Graves

{{{[!is[system]regexp:text[{{Footnotes##myref1}}]]}}}

I see here nested curly brackets. To my best knowledge, TW confuses with such script. 

shows the names of those tiddlers, as links, which contain a reference to the book

(I don't know if this is the most elegant way of doing this)

I was wondering, is it possible to extract the page number as well, to somehow create a list of the page numbers for myref1?

Regards

Jon

--Mohammad 

[Jon]

So, I need to go with the list widget but there seems to be a missing [ in the example and I've played around with adding one in but can't get it to work.

Can't get this bit to work either:

<$vars ftrpage="Hi">

<<fnote  "{{Footnotes##myref1}} $(ftrpage)$">>

</$vars>

Thanks for the input.

 

Jon

[Mohammad]

Jon,

 Give a try for this

<ol>

<$list filter="[!is[system]!has[draft.of]search:text[Footnotes##myref1]]-[<currentTiddler>]" variable=lnk>

<li><$link to=<<lnk>>><$text text=<<lnk>>/></$link></li>

</$list>

</ol>

This should also work in TW 5.1.17

--Mohammad

On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 6:09:50 PM UTC+4:30, Jon wrote:

[Jon]

That works, thanks Mohammad.

Now just need the list of page numbers for myref1 if that was possible.

Regards

Jon

[Mohammad]

John,

 Do you mean in

<<fnote  "{{Footnotes##myref1}} p.19">>

extract p.19?  could you give an example in plain text?

[Jon]

So the list widget gives a list of all the tiddlers which contain myref1.

What I'd also like is a list of the page numbers for myref1.

So yes, extract p.19 and also p.45, p.78 etc. 

Does that make sense?

Regards

Jon

[Mohammad]

Jon,

 Have you used the showfnotes

https://kookma.github.io/Refnotes/#help%2Ffootnote%2Fshowfnotes-macro

The below code in any tiddler shows all footnotes

<<showfnotes filter:"[!is[system]search:text[myref1]]">>

For your special case, please give a try on this script

\define customOutput(p) 

<ul>

<$wikify name=p2 text=<<__p__>> >

<li><$text text={{{[<p2>split["]join[]]}}}/></li>

</$wikify>

</ul>

\end

\define jon-macro(fntext:"Footnotes##myref1")

<ol>

<$list filter="[!is[system]!has[draft.of]search:text[$fntext$]]-[<currentTiddler>]" variable=lnk>

<li>

<$link to=<<lnk>>><$text text=<<lnk>>/></$link>

<$macrocall 

 $name="find" text={{Test}}

 begin="""<<fnote""" end=""">>"""

 output="customOutput"

/>

</li>

</$list>

</ol>

\end

<<jon-macro fntext:"Footnotes##myref1">>

This solution uses the internal find macro of Refnotes plugin.

It only works on TW5.1.21+

To use above script create a new tiddler and copy and paste the above code. Save and see the results.

--Mohammad

[Mohammad]

If you like to use above code everywhere, then tag the tiddler hosts the code with $:/tags/Macro

Good luck.

Mohammad

[Jon]

Hi Mohammad,

Ah, I didn't investigate the showfnotes

<<showfnotes filter:"[!is[system]search:text[myref1]]">>

That gives exactly what I want!!

Thanks for your work on the other script but it seems to give the same result as your previous solution which I've adopted:

<ol>

<$list filter="[!is[system]!has[draft.of]search:text[Footnotes##myref1]]-[<currentTiddler>]" variable=lnk>

<li><$link to=<<lnk>>><$text text=<<lnk>>/></$link></li>

</$list>

</ol>

Thanks again.

Jon

[Mohammad]

The showfnotes macro just does not show a link to tiddler where the footnote is used, but it is quite powerful.

By the way the code I sent you shows the link!

Use which one you like!

--Mohammad

[Jon]

Ah, I see this bit should show the page numbers but it doesn't seem to work

 <$wikify name=p2 text=<<__p__>> >

<li><$text text={{{[<p2>split["]join[]]}}}/></li>

I have the page numbers listed in this format: <<fnote  "{{Footnotes##myref1}} p.19">>

Regards

Jon

[Mohammad]

For me it shows!

Actually the output macro grabs "{{Footnotes##myref1}} p.19" and wikify it and then remove double quotes!

If you can give a link or post a simple wiki somewhere!

[Jon]

Hi Mohammad,

I don't know how to host so I'll stick with your showfnotes macro which does what I need.

Thanks again

Jon