Hi Charlie, somewhat off-topic, but your answer to Atro led me to a question regarding another kind of template. Seeing how streamlined your wiki is, but having not seen anything in this direction: Have you thought about using templates to create certain tiddlers, either by cloning the template or using a button?
Kind Regards, Felicia On Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:33:54 UTC+2, Charlie Veniot wrote: > > Hello Atro, > > Those are excellent questions. Without having pondered deeply about it, > here is my immediate blathering of thoughts: > > I generally much prefer transclusion wherever I can use that instead of a > macro. For the way this old sponge of mine works, transclusion often makes > more sense to me than a macro (maybe because I always think in a > transclusion way (with *everything*, TiddlyWiki or not.) I also get > annoyed with macro syntax for whatever reason (in the same way somebody > would prefer the colour green while somebody else the colour blue.) > > There are certain things that, to me, macro is hands down the way to go. > What these things are, I'm not sure. Maybe it is enough to say that what > can't be nicely done via transclusion, go with a macro. > > For example, all of the macros in my "Product Reviews" TiddlyWiki: > https://intertwingularityslicendice.neocities.org/CJ_ProductReviews.html#Macros > > Well, the "ListCategoryProducts" and "ShowProductThumbnail", I can see me > replacing those with transclusion template tiddlers. > > I am currently only half-way into my morning's first cup o' coffee, still > a bit in a sleepy fog. Re-reading the above: huh, not so shabby despite > not so bright-eyed and not so bushy-tailed ... > > Cheers ! > > On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 2:38:26 AM UTC-3, Atronoush wrote: >> >> This is absolutely great! What do you think if one uses a macro instead >> of template? >> So instead of several templates you can have one tiddler with several >> macros? >> >> I am really interested to know the pros and cons of template / macro and >> when I should use a template instead of macro? >> >> --Atro >> >> >>> >>> -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cc7e9997-ce68-4819-82b7-b2a7085cd48ao%40googlegroups.com.
