WHitWoT #8 (Feb 20-March 4, 2008)

WHitWoT #8 (Feb 20-March 4, 2008)

Welcome to the 8th edition of "What Happened in the World of TiddlyWiki", or WHitWoT for short.

WHitWoT summarises what's happened lately on the TiddlyWiki mailing list and elsewhere in the TiddlyWiki world.

The WHitWoT team has had a few weeks of too-busy, so here's a bumper two-week issue to start catching up.

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News and Stuff

Major new release of TWAB (TiddlyWiki Address Book)!

Vincent DiBartolo announced version 2.0 of TWAB — the TiddlyWiki Address Book. It adds some great features such as the ability to export and import contacts to any CSV format, with preset formats for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Outlook.

TWAB's documentation is among the best I've seen for any TiddlyWiki vertical. Check it out.

[source] http://www.tiddly-twab.com
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/ebc338a9aac9e7a7

In addition, TWAB 2.0 was released using the TiddlyWiki 2.2.4 core. TWAB user Yvonney requested an update to the 2.3.0 core. Vinny has since made a 2.3.0-based version of TWAB available.

[source] http://www.tiddly-twab.com/twab-tw230.html
[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/76323807324d3cc4

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TiddlyWiki for the iPhone

TiddlyWiki uploading legend BidiX announced his new UploadTiddlerPlugin, which works like his well-known UploadPlugin but gains a huge performance boost by uploading individual tiddlers as they are modified, rather than the entire TiddlyWiki every time.

UploadTiddlerPlugin is particularly useful in BidiX's iTW. iTW is a TiddlyWiki with the look and feel of an iPhone application, built to run in iPhone Safari. With UploadTiddlerPlugin, your TiddlyWiki is usable via your iPhone anywhere, even when you're using the iPhone's slow EDGE connection to the internet.

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/c8881c147f8593f9
[source] http://TiddlyWiki.bidix.info/
[source] http://itw.bidix.info/

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Online Discussions

Styling buttons in a specific tiddler

Alex Hough wanted to remove the thin border around a button in a specific 'TEST' tiddler — e.g. using
<<newTiddler label:'Name_of_button' title:'Title_new_tiddler' tag: tag_new_tiddler>>
FND explained that this was a CSS specificity issue that could be solved adding a line in a StyleSheet type tiddler, such as
#tiddlerTEST a.button { border: none; }
He added that such issues were mentioned[1] in the TiddlyWiki.org community wiki.

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/1b1d59437c70f7f4/
[1] http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Tiddler-Specific_Styles

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Using angle brackets in macro parameters

Nicolas Syssoieff wanted to customise his newTiddler button so that new tiddlers would come with some help text inside. He had a "hints" tiddler, so adding the tiddler macro into new tiddlers would do the trick, but because of the angle brackets, it was hard to tell the newTiddler macro to include the tiddler macro properly.

Nicolas tried <<newTiddler text:"<<tiddler Hints>>">> but this didn't work. Luckily two answers to escape the >> were given:

• by FND: <<newTiddler text:{{"<<tiddler Hints>" + ">"}}>>
• By Eric Shulman: <<newTiddler text:{{"<<tiddler Hints>\>"}}>>

[thread] http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/db62515a7f510b91

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Quick Shots

open a local TiddlyWiki from the command line:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/b32da7f16e1ef117

give a long tiddler a clickable table of contents:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/7682a608dce07fca

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Postdrivel

Every story in this edition came from WHitWoT's contributing writer, ocalTW. Thanks, ocal!

;Daniel

About WHitWoT

WHitWoT is distilled from the social wisdom of the TiddlyWiki Google Group by the WHitWoT team. Editor Daniel is a long time TiddlyWiki fan, runs tiddlyspot.com along with Simon of MonkeyGTD and MPTW fame, and wonders if his one line contribution to the core code is still there.

Find (and subscribe to) WHitWoT at Daniel's blog:
http://blog.deuceofalltrades.com/search/label/WHitWoT
..and posted ocasionally at the TiddlyWiki Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki