[tw] Re: tiddlypocketbook and margins

2012-01-29 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
The default for TiddlyPocketBook is ISO A4, as used in most countries, but if you're wanting to print on Letter, the tiddler StyleSheetPrintPage can be changed to transclude [[StyleSheetPrintLetter]] instead of [[StyleSheetPrintA4]] I guess I should make it an option, but never worked out how to d

[tw] Re: wikipedia is planning to delete tiddlywiki article?

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
I added a comment on the activity of development and this group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TiddlyWiki which seems to have triggered the result "Keep" from an admin, and removal of the banner: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles

[tw] StaticMapsPlugin

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
I'm sure others have made similar plugins, but someone might be interested in a macro to incorporate Google Static Image maps in TiddlyWiki: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/StaticMapPlugin/ I imagined another plugin to cache the images locally, or possibly enhancing them into an interactive maps

[tw] Re: tiddlywiki.org and documentation

2010-11-29 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> with the growing use of tiddlyweb, how is the documentation for > tiddlywiki going to be handled?  Up to now most documentation can be > found on tiddlywiki.org , and scattered around the tiddlywiki google > group. > Is tiddlywiki.org there to stay and to be a reference documentation? For Tiddly

[tw] Re: Featured Spaces

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Raji! > As I am a novice in programing terminology and technology, I would > like to get your support, guidance and support. > > Please visit  http://rajichandrasekhar.tiddlyspace.com/   and include > it in your featured section. Also please note that all my literary > works are in Malayalam.

[tw] Re: Sandbox or similar for tiddlyspace/faq/... (att: psd)

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Aug 7, 11:59 am, twgrp wrote: > psd (whom I believe it associated with UnaMesa or "at least" core > developmen, yes?) Hi, I work for Osmosoft, and have contributed to the core.. has generously put uphttp://faq.tiddlyspace.comhttp://tiddlyspace.tiddlyspace.com/http://glossary.tiddlyspace.com/

[tw] Re: automatically disappearing tiddlers

2010-08-03 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Eric! > For example here's a use-case that is very common and causes a > VERY bad **loss-of-data** outcome: oh? That indeed would be VERY bad! > 1) edit a tiddler > 2) make changes (but don't finish editing yet!) > 3) click any link in the page > 4) tiddler being edited is closed (without

[tw] Re: automatically disappearing tiddlers

2010-08-02 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Eric, > When I first wrote this plugin many years ago, the code looked very > much like what Paul has posted.   We've been here many times before. My strong aesthetic is for minimal code which does the one thing I require, where as yours is to be highly configurable and meet many different use-c

[tw] Re: TSpace - how best include plugins?

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
I've taken this question, and the answer and used it for our first TiddlySpace FAQ: http://faq.tiddlyspace.com/#[[Is%20it%20better%20to%20include%20or%20copy%20a%20TiddlyWiki%20plugin%3F]] -- Paul (psd) http://blog.whatfettle.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

[tw] Re: Tiddly* Boston Meet-Up / TiddlyChat

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> As it's turned out, only Paul Downey from Osmosoft (@psd on twitter) > is coming over to Boston with my boss, JP Rangaswami. So we rather > dropped the idea of a full-scale TiddlyChat. Anyhow, I'm sure Paul > would be keen to meet any TiddlyWiki people while he's there. *absolutely* It would be

[tw] Re: SlideShow TiddlyWiki

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
TiddlySlidy is still being developed as we type .. > the only problem I have with it, is that to move to the next slide I > have to manipulate the mouse and click on the "next slide" button. the keyboard shortcuts are work in progress and being provided by a plugin Phil Hawksworth is working on.

[tw] Michael Mahemoff's Roundup of TiddlyWiki projects

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
In case you haven't seen it, Osmosoft's Michael Mahemoff has written a nice roundup of the new Tiddly* projects on his radar: http://softwareas.com/the-tiddly-universe-leading-up-to-tiddlyspace -- Paul (psd) http://blog.whatfettle.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[tw] Re: EditMode CheckboxToggleTag plugin?

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> should be: > >     bah: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

[tw] EditMode CheckboxToggleTag plugin?

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
I've been using Eric's nice CheckboxToggleTag transclusion: http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#CheckboxToggleTag which I can see has been modified for MPTW2, but wondered if anyone has a similar plugin which works when in edit mode? If Eric is listening, then I think there's a small typeo in the do

[tw] Re: ThemeButtonPlugin

2009-12-12 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Mark! > On Dec 10, 11:44 pm, "Paul Downey (psd)" > wrote: > > > I've an alternative macro version of this which > > does less (I like plugins which do one thing) and > > might be helpful to compare when thinking about > > the cost versus benefit

[tw] Re: ThemeButtonPlugin

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Eric > -- > onclick="story.switchTheme('$1'); return false;">$2 > -- sure. I was aware it's a pretty minimal requirement and could even have embedded the javascript directly in the HTML, but wanted the modularity of a plugin. Then felt if I was going to provide a plugi

[tw] ThemeButtonPlugin

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Announcing the ThemeButtonPlugin: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/ThemeButtonPlugin/ A very small plugin to provide a button to switch to a named theme. We put this together to implement flipping between presenter, authoring and TiddlyWiki modes for TiddlySlidy which is a very embryonic slides

[tw] Re: TiddlyPocketBook (PocketMod) stylesheet for Letter Size paper

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Mark! > But the default layout for that project assumes A4 size paper. That's right -- I'm a Brit! > To make that work, I have to shrink the page by > 89%, and quite of pulp "bandwidth" is wasted. Below is my first stab > at a stylesheet layout for the paper size preferred in the US. Great!

[tw] Re: displaying pdf as image

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
There's some discussion, and useful links, for embedding PDF in HTML on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/291813/best-way-to-embed-pdf-in-html I don't much like the idea of using Flash but there are some other links which may help, and you might like to ask further questions

[tw] Re: Vertical Text

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Nov 11, 4:45 pm, Tobias Beer wrote: > I was wondering if one could come up with a class definition that > would allow vertical text with ''all'' current versions of major > browsers, like vR & vL (indicating orientation) > > So, the moz variant would be cool and maybe IE's tb-lr too. That way

[tw] Re: Vertical Text

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Tobias, > Can anyone explain how TiddlyPocketBook achieves the vertical text- > layout using the 'PrintTheme'? It's the print stylesheet which uses webkit CSS transform features, but which can be applied to other browsers .. http://tiddlypocketbook.com/#StyleSheetPrintA4 the source code

[tw] Re: ThemedTiddlerPlugin

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Oct 16, 5:23 pm, "Tobias - http://tbGTD.tiddlyspot.com"; wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Just found TiddlyResume... as linked > here:http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/TaggedTemplatePlugin/ > > That is really neat! To cook any of > these:http://svn.tiddlywiki.org/Trunk/verticals/ > > ...would I need a runn

[tw] Re: ThemedTiddlerPlugin

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi Eric! > In fact, TaggedTemplateTweak can support ALL of the following > references to templates, list in the order of precedence Fantastic. But it doesn't fit the bill for our use-case, and I much prefer something smaller and focussed. I also enjoyed coding this, using qunit for tests (the h

[tw] ThemedTiddlerPlugin

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Announcing the ThemedTiddlerPlugin: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/ThemedTiddlerPlugin/ which allows a tiddler to reference a "mini-theme" tiddler using a "theme" extended field. A "mini-theme" is a tiddler containing a ViewTemplate, EditTemplate and Stylesheet and a TiddlyWiki may contain s

[tw] ePub Zen Garden

2009-06-24 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
TiddlyWikiers who share an interest in eBooks, might be interested in the ePub Zen Garden """ We want to dispel the myth that digital books can't also be crafted works of visual design. Just as web design has evolved and matured, so too will ebooks, and book designers have a new medium available

[tw] Re: TiddlyPocketBook

2009-06-07 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On May 31, 11:15 pm, "Mark S." wrote: > This is very cool news. I've been using PocketMods for years after > discovering that both Handspring and Palm belonged to the same union > -- invariably failing either just before or just after an important > meeting. heh, and being something you'd mind l

[tw] Re: TiddlyPocketBook

2009-06-07 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On May 30, 8:30 am, IainS wrote: > Works well and the cheat sheet is inherently useful (maybe it should > be on the TW site). > > If you were a Japanese zen master you would have worked out how to do > the folding without cutting the paper! uh-huh! Actually there are lots of possibilities for

[tw] Re: FadingMessagesPlugin

2009-06-07 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On May 30, 5:31 pm, Mike wrote: > > I > > found:http://fadingmessagesplugin.tiddlyspot.com/#%20FadingMessagesPlugin%2... > > from:http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_thread/thread/e1ee12... I wrote that! The canonical version is here: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/FadingMessagesP

[tw] TiddlyPocketBook

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
A while back, Brian Suda joined Osmosoft for a day of hacking. Amongst a number of cool ideas for TiddlyWiki he pointed us at http://pocketmod.com - a Flash based site for making 8 page booklets from a single piece of A4/US Letter paper. Jeremy suggested we could create these using CSS3 transforms

[tw] TiddlyWikiVerse Poster

2009-05-26 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi, Osmosoft are in the process of putting some posters together to explain TiddlyWiki - how it works and how it is used. One of the ideas is to illustrate the universe of TiddlyWiki themes and verticals by collecting as many "interesting" TiddlyWiki examples as we can find out there in the wild

[tw] Re: FatSlicePlugin

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> There's a discussion > here:http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki/browse_frm/thread/546c0d777... > > ...back in October about this experimental plugin that gives you > "slices with multiple columns" I think the word "experimental" was really around whether the functionality was suitable fo

[tw] Re: TW Infomercial: But if you act now....

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
I'm suddenly transported to a US motel room, jet-lagged and watching early morning TV .. > But wait there is more! .. here comes the science bit? > For some reason I want to see this on YouTube. now that I'd watch :-) Paul (psd) -- http://blog.whatfettle.com --~--~-~--~~--

[tw] Announcing TiddlyFlash!

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi There! I'm a big fan of TiddlyWiki, and have enjoyed using it for a couple of years now, even being motivated enough to develop the odd patch and plugin! All well and good, but I have noticed a few fundamental weaknesses with TiddlyWiki which I think I've managed to address in a new product wh

[tw] Open Source Innovation [Was: Re: Is Eric Priceless? You tell us]

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Feb 21, 3:05 pm, Alex Hough wrote: > error alert !!! the above has a bit in the wrong place. heh, :) > I've had discussion about ideas with a few innovation academics: the > think i am on another planet when i tell them  the Tiddly IP is owned > by a charity. They don't believe me when I tel

[tw] Re: Is Eric Priceless? You tell us

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Feb 21, 10:43 am, Alex Hough wrote: > With the unusual structure of the TiddlyWiki project, some interesting > governance issues arise. > Would it be in appropriate for these issues to be  discussed on the group? > > It would be interesting for the community to know what is going on > behind

[tw] Re: GeoRSS?

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> could you try and set the generate rss so that *only* the tiddlers > with georss defined (all of them, even if it's more then the standard > 20) would get exported? Or make that an option in the plugin? I guess the most TIddlyWiki way to implement this is to have a tiddler with a filter, someth

[tw] Re: GeoRSS?

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> " some tiddling later... > can't get the plugin to work, it keeps throwing 'Error: > ReferenceError: tiddlerToRssItem is not defined' .. > I tried disabling all my plugins, no effect. > I tried downloading your file locally, that works." > > so then i found out your version is 2.4.3, i was on 2

[tw] Re: GeoRSS?

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Hi! I've put together a plugin which adds geo:lat and geo:long to the standard TiddlyWiki RSS feed: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/GeoRSSPlugin/ The example RSS from this TiddlyWiki is here: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/GeoRSSPlugin/index.xml As with any geoRSS, you can put the URI in

[tw] Re: GeoRSS?

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Feb 18, 12:11 pm, MobileLibrary wrote: > Hi all, >  How difficult would it be to get the "create RSS" function of TW  to > accept /include custom fields like geo: lat and so create a feed to > use with the maps API?   Pretty easy! > Any remarks welcome! Osmosoft's Jon Robson has been expe

[tw] Re: Google Notebook

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> Note sure what technique (s)he used though. I noticed quite a few notebooks reference TiddlyWiki: http://www.google.com/notebook/search?hl=en&q=tiddlywiki I'm inclined to write an adaptor for an Atom feed, and can see how each note becomes a tiddler, but wonder how to map the notebook se

[tw] Google Notebook

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
I noticed Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook/ because it's closing down, which is a shame: http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stopping-development-on-google-notebook.html because it looks really nice! I wondered if there was an import to TiddlyWiki mechanism, or if an

[tw] Re: FadingMessagesPlugin

2008-12-23 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
> Just a word of caution: As long as TiddlyWiki doesn't have a persistent > message store*, faded messages are irretrievable. I can see two additional plugins in this area: 1) a "log" of previous messages, probably a temporary tiddler 2) some notion of prioratizing a message - ERROR,WARNING,NOTI

[tw] Re: FadingMessagesPlugin

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Dec 21, 3:06 pm, "Russ Thomas" wrote: > > I'm getting: Error: TypeError: config.extensions is undefined > > from both plugins. > > TW 2.4.1 > MPTW 2.5.2 > FF 3.0.4 Ah, my bad - I've been working with the latest TW core, which includes this changeset: http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/changeset/

[tw] FadingMessagesPlugin

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Announcing the FadingMessagesPlugin: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/FadingMessagesPlugin/ This removes the need to close displayed messages, by making them automatically disappear after a short interval. The FadingMessagesPlugin depends on another new plugin, the WikifiedMessagesPlugin:

[tw] Re: FixedDisplayPlugin

2008-12-15 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Dec 15, 12:49 pm, Morris Gray wrote: > Interesting idea. thanks! > I wonder what kind of application you developed it for? It's for TiddlyResume, a TW to author a Resume/CV: http://tiddlyresume.com -- that domain is down at the moment, so I've mirrored it here: http://whatfettle.

[tw] FixedDisplayPlugin

2008-12-15 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Announcing the FixedDisplayPlugin: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/FixedDisplayPlugin/ This naively creates a "fixed display" TiddlyWiki by reapplying the DefaultTiddlers to the story whenever a tiddler is changed. Tiddlers may still be added to a story during reading, but that behavior may b

[tw] Re: SegmentedFilterPlugin

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
On Dec 12, 4:58 pm, Ken Girard wrote: > Look in his DefaultTiddlers. > He has it opening > ... SegmentedFilterPlugin > ... [tag[red]] [sort[-title]] > which translates to "First open SegmentedFilterPlugin, and then all > tiddlers tagged with 'red', sorted from z-a" where dtend or title are tiddl

[tw] SegmentedFilterPlugin

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Downey (psd)
Announcing the SegmentedFilterPlugin: http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/SegmentedFilterPlugin/ which I found this useful for building a filter from a series of filter clauses, one clause per line. For example, MainMenu and DefaultTiddlers can be something like: """ [[Profile]] [[ExperienceSect