(TW5) Live preview of WikiText?

[Leo Staley]

I've found a few applications that allow me to type in Markdown (another common markup language), and see a live preview showing what my changes look like.

 It's literally the BEST of both worlds between a WYSIWYG editor and using markup tags. 

The need to constantly switch back and forth out of edit mode in order to see what I'm doing has been a huge hurdle to me for adopting TiddlyWiki. I was wondering if there are plans to implement it as a feature, or if it would be possible to create an add-on or plug-in to enable this functionality? How hard would it be to create such a plug-in? (would it be able to be whipped it up in a few minutes hours by someone, or would it be a multiple day/week/person project?)

[Leo Staley]

Okay, Cool, I found CodeMirror. It's AWESOME. 

SADLY, The more formatting and wikitext I add, like headers, and bullet points, the more out of sync the preview gets with my edit window, until I can't actually see new content I'm typing! I've got to have a way to keep the visible preview stay with where the cursor is... 

Is there any fix for this? Right now, I've got this awful feeling of SO CLOSE! Yet SO FAR! :( 

also, Why does the side bar just keep getting bigger and bigger? I don't want a huge side bar, I want the main area to get bigger as the viewing area expands, not the side bar... it makes the live preview really tiny and narrow. :( 

[Stephan Hradek]

You did see the big button labeled "Show Preview" in TW5's Edit Mode, did you?

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Leo

It sounds like you found the preview pane (it's not the same as the codemirror plugin, btw), but that the problem is that it can get out of vertical sync with the edit pane. That's certainly an issue, and one for which there is no easy fix - it's one of many small ways in which TiddlyWiki is encouraging you to break your writing up into smallish chunks, and use transclusion to recombine the bits into a longer narrative.

You may find Ton Gerner's guide for creating a fluid layout useful: wider tiddlers do reduce the problem somewhat,

Best wishes

Jeremy

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Stephan Hradek <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote:

You did see the big button labeled "Show Preview" in TW5's Edit Mode, did you?

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[Leo Staley]

Thanks! I didn't know what transclusion was, so I went and read up. After figuring out the general idea, I found the page on the main Tiddlywiki page "Transclusion in WikiText". I decided that that might work. Unfortunately, there was no more information on "TiddlerTemplate" to explain how to do it. 

[Captain Packers]

I don't see a preview pane. Is it not available when running node.js tiddlywiki?

[PMario]

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 9:04:17 PM UTC+1, Captain Packers wrote:

I don't see a preview pane. Is it not available when running node.js tiddlywiki?

It is available. go to tiddlywiki.com - edit HelloThere and click the "last" toolbar button
-m