10th August 2023 Newsletter

Covers: July 16th 2023 thru August 10th 2023

News

TiddlyWiki v5.3.1 is preparing for release next week. We’re making a release relatively soon after v5.3.0 in order to correct a number of minor problems introduced in that release. You can help us by testing whether it works properly with your own plugins and customisations.

There are more details in the forum post.

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Articles

Showcase: Kansas Railroad TiddlyWiki

Discussion here

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Plugins

AsciiMath plugin for KaTeX

After recently posting about problems with the MathJax plugin after upgrading to TiddlyWiki 5.3.0, I was asked “why don’t you use KaTeX”?

The answer had been “it doesn’t support AsciiMath”, but after visiting the KaTeX website I found an AsciiMath converter someone had written. A little work proved I could use it to switch from MathJax to KaTeX.

I have now repackaged that converter into a TiddlyWiki plugin.

- Andrew

Discussion here

Plugin here

Keywords - increase tiddler findability

Are you one of those people that has ever not found something?

Aha! this is for exactly people like you!

KEYWORDS …lets you add keywords to locate tiddlers in standard search. This is not the same thing as “tags”; keywords can be anything, they are not directly visible and you can even add them to otherwise hard-to-find shadow tiddlers as keywords don’t overwrite or otherwise affect the tiddler.

Check it out.

- twMat

Discussion here

Plugin here

TiddlyPWA: Secure offline storage and cross-device synchronization solution

Hello everyone,

so a year ago I’ve tried TiddlyWiki again, didn’t like any existing storage/hosting solutions and started making my own. Now, it’s finally ready to be announced to the public!

Introducing TiddlyPWA

Basically, :notebook_with_decorative_cover: TiddlyPWA turns TiddlyWiki5 into an offline-first Progressive Web App with encrypted local persistent storage and efficient synchronization with a server that can easily be hosted for free.

It’s TiddlyWiki turned into a modern notes app, with the modern user experience you’d expect from that, without sacrificing anything that makes TiddlyWiki great: you can easily install plugins and themes, upgrade the TW core, and so on – when hosting the app wiki on the sync server, saving it is a one click operation.

- Val Packett

Discussion here

Plugin here

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Tips & Tricks

Embedded vs External

How to "do" the canonical_uri

1. Create a new tiddler. You can name it whatever you like. For the purpose of this example, lets call it A Little More

2. Edit this new tiddler.

3. At the bottom of the tiddler, set Type: to application/pdf

4. Add a new field called _canonical_uri field, with the field value set to file:///D:\Music\CHARTS\A-E_SONG-Titles\A Little More.pdf

5. Save the changes

6. Now that the tiddler has been created, you can link to the pdf by using [[A Little More]] and you can transclude (show) the pdf by using {{A Little More}}

- Intrinsical

Discussion here

Those Pesky Brackets

As there are plenty of recurring “what’s up with all these brackets!!! Single brackets? Double brackets! TRIPLE BRACKedsfdsfsffddsbagel‽” threads lately so I wanted to give explanations another way in case they can be of any help.

The basics are mostly done (I needed something to do last week, in between many hours of sleep, while I was holed up with Covid).

I’ll add more bits to it as I think of them, but I think there’s enough to help a beginner out.

- Brian Radspinner

Discussion here

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