I have various clippers in my browser. One of them for instance copies
markdown. The markdown text is a lot cleaner to edit than HTML.
My impression is that not many people actually use TW as an editing
platform.
I'm thinking that editing in TW would be OK if it worked more like
dynalist. Here's how I think it would work, and should be possible in TW:
You'd start in your chapter/article tiddler. There would be an existing
line to start (don't ask how that got there). You could click on it similar
to the way that you can click paragraphs in the Slicer edition. When you do
you will immediately be in edit mode without opening a tiddler. You can
make changes and add more text. When you close the editor any paragraphs
inside the editor would turn into tiddlers and be added to your working
article. You could then click on any paragraph to edit it, adding more text
and paragraphs that would also be broken into more tiddlers. In this way
the working text would always be a comfortable size while the surrounding
text would be in it's rendered form.
I'm kind of surprised no one has made something like this.
On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 6:54:05 PM UTC-7, Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote:
>
> Thank you, Mark!
>
> I'm curious - do people actually write straight into TW for long texts?
> How come this hasn't been much of an issue for everyone else? Or is it just
> that most people take quick notes / bullet points and never feel the need
> to write or paste very long articles?
>
> On Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 2:42:25 AM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm sure someone will come along with a better solution. This will
>> replace single line feeds with <p/> paragraph breaks. Unfortunately, this
>> means your original text will actually be physically more mangled than it
>> started -- I have no way to generate a literal carriage return. Be sure to
>> make backups if you try this.
>>
>> Name of tiddler: <$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/convertme" size="20" tag=
>> "input" placeholder="Tiddler to convert" default="Sample"/>
>>
>> <$vars br="<br/>" par="<p/>" title={{$:/temp/convertme}} >
>> <$button>Add line feeds
>> <$list filter="[<title>get[text]splitregexp[\n]join<par>]">
>> <$action-setfield $tiddler=<<title>> $field="text" $value=<<
>> currentTiddler>>/>
>> </$list>
>> </$button>
>>
>> </$vars>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 5:26:44 PM UTC-7, Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey everyone!
>>>
>>> I often have to paste long content from other sources (Google Doc, Roam,
>>> email) into TW and it just lumps everything together. No more paragraphs,
>>> formatting or anything, just a massive blob of text.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to fix this?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Anne-Laure.
>>>
>>
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