Finally got a chance to try this and WOOHOO I got it to work. Thank you very much Astrid.
Rich Shumaker On Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:21:09 PM UTC-8, Astrid Elocson wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > There's an example of a YouTube macro here: > > http://tiddlywiki.com/#Formatting%20text%20in%20TiddlyWiki > > But you might like to try this as an experiment: Create a new system > tiddler on your Hangouts wiki. Call it something like > "$:/.rich/macros/youtube" - the dot before "rich" will keep this tiddler > floating conveniently at the top of the list in the sidebar's System tab. > Store the following three lines as the tiddler's content: > > \define yt(time, minSec) > [[$time$|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$(youtubeid)$&t=$minSec$]] > \end > > Make sure there's a linefeed at the end of the third line, i.e. check your > typing cursor can go onto a fourth (empty) line below the word "\end". > > Give this tiddler the special tag "$:/tags/Macro". This makes the macro it > defines available to all tiddlers. > > The macro it defines is called "yt" (a nice short name, because you may be > using it a lot :) When you subsequently use the macro, you will have to > supply two values, known here as "time" and "minSec". When you subsequently > use the macro, "time" will be the time you want to display, e.g. > "00:01:25", and "minSec" will be the time in YouTube's format, e.g. > "001m25s". The values you supply will appear in the places where the > macro's definition says $time$ and $minSec$. > > So… at the very start of each hangout tiddler, add a line like the > following. Change the video ID to match the hangout in question, and place > a blank line between this and the rest of the tiddler. > > \define youtubeid() EU-H0xhga08 > > This also defines a macro, but this macro is only available within this > tiddler. Each hangout tiddler can define its own private "youtubeid" macro > in this way, to save you having to repeat it for every scene of the hangout. > > Then… throughout the rest of the tiddler, you can replace things like this > > [[00:01:25|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-H0xhga08&t=001m25s]] > > with less bulky things like this: > > <<yt "00:01:25" "001m25s">> > > Ideally, you'd want to say just > > <<yt "00:01:25">> > > or > > <<yt "001m25s">> > > but I don't think TiddlyWiki itself provides the necessary conversion > mechanism. (I hope someone will prove me wrong.) The conversion could be > done with a "power macro" written in pure JavaScript, but that's a > different can of worms. > > – æ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
