On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 6:57:54 AM UTC-7, Stallings wrote:
>
> I'd like to turn the value of a field ("bibtex-annote") into the content
> of multiple new tiddlers for later use/transclusion. Right now, I am able
> to copy the entire value to a single new tiddler with this button (adapted
> from here <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/8ci-cTQl_OA>
> ):
> \define annoTags() [[$(currentTiddler)$]] Annotation
> \define annoTiddler() $(currentTiddler)$
> <$button>
> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title="New Annotation" tags
> =<<annoTags>> text={{!!bibtex-annote}}/>
> Pull annotations
> </$button>
> This works, but obviously is incapable of parsing the value into multiple
> tiddlers. Here's the value:
> Extracted Annotations (6/11/2020, 8:20:28 AM)"Infection-control strategies
> focused ... into this facility." (Arons et al 2020:1){\textbar}"The median
> ... (interquartile range, 3 to 5)." (Arons et al 2020:3){\textbar}
> Which should return two tiddlers:
> "Infection-control strategies focused ... into this facility." (Arons et
> al 2020:1)
> "The median ... (interquartile range, 3 to 5)." (Arons et al 2020:3)
>
The $button widget can contain a $list widget that splits the existing
"bibtex-annote" field into parts and then invokes the $action-sendmessage
for each. Something like this:
\define annoTags() [[$(currentTiddler)$]] Annotation
<$button>
<$list filter="[{!!bibtex-annote}split[{\textbar}]butlast[]]" variable=
"this-annote">
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" $param="New Annotation"
tags=<<annoTags>> text=<<this-annote>>/>
</$list>
Pull annotations
</$button>
notes:
* the $list filter splits the bibtex-annote value on each occurrence of
"{\textbar}". note that the curly-braces in this case are literal text,
and *NOT* a field reference syntax
* the resulting items do not include the split text (i.e., "{\textbar}" is
automatically omitted)
* the $list includes a trailing blank item due to the final instance of
"{\textbar}", so we use "butlast[]" to remove that blank item
* the $list uses variable="this-annote" to avoid changing the value of
$(currentTiddler)$ (which you use in the annoTags() macro)
* the tm-new-tiddler uses $param="..." rather than title="..." to specify
the title of the new tiddler. This allows the action to automatically add
a numeric suffix to the title (so that each new tiddler has a unique title)
Give it a try and see if it does as you intend. Let me know how it goes.
enjoy,
-e
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