Slice

[Christian Uhlig]

Hello, can i get a short instruction what "slice" is and how to use?

Regards

[Mat]

Where did you hear about it, please link. It is, to my knowledge, not a used term in TW5.

<:-)

[Mark S.]

There was "slice" in the classic TW. In TW5 you're supposed to make each tiddler be the slice. There's a discussion about slices and there workarounds here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/slice%7Csort:date/tiddlywiki/QUXd3kG1pTQ/RnYdTqLmAwAJ

[Christian Uhlig]

Found something in TW5, a button on top of a tiddler.

On the other hand i found some info here http://tiddlywiki.com/editions/text-slicer/

[Mat]

On Friday, December 30, 2016 at 8:48:24 PM UTC+1, Christian Uhlig wrote:

Found something in TW5, a button on top of a tiddler.

On the other hand i found some info here http://tiddlywiki.com/editions/text-slicer/ 

Ah, you're right, the text-slicer. Yes, that is probably the only existing "real thing" about slicing in TW5.

<:-)

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Christian,

There used to be slices in TiddlyWiki Classic where you could define key:value pairs at the start of lines in tiddler text.

In TW5, this is no longer supported. However, DataTiddlers.losely correspond to the general idea.

Best wishes,

Tobias.

[Josiah]

Ciao Christian

The fundamental problem with the Text-Slicer edition is not that so much what it does. It does that well. Its simply that in order to slice stuff you have to do external work preparing the input text so its ready for slicing. In the end that's quite a lot of work.

The question is whether its easier, given you have to prepare it, that making it into a JSON importable file might not just be as easy.

I been playing with regular expressions external to TW to slice texts directly to TW format and its a lot easier than coping with interim formats IMO.

Best wishes
Josiah