Jero, Some work a few of us are doing is likely to assist you here. With Mario as the key coder we are working on and there is a demo of it see https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywikidev/c/vS5ZI0FCiIY
Basically it allows the definition of extended and customised mark-up. In time I believe a library of custom mark-up could address any authors needs. I am keen to build a library of elements I will use when writing process documents and manuals, my own or a sharable custom "mark-up language" is possible. In the mean time do consider making use of html elements and CSS to alter the output as you need. Tones On Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 06:46:19 UTC+11 jero...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! > > Wikitext offers great formatting options, but in specific use cases there > can be a legitimate need for some more granularity in controling features > like line breaks, indents and line spacing. > > Yesterday I happened to read about the Katex plugin for TW in the > documentation of Tiddlyshow. > As I have no previous experience with Latex (and a search for ["Katex" > "plain text"] in this Google Group didn't yield the kind of results I > expected) I'm now asking this question here in the hope that it makes > sense: > > Besides of mathematical and chemical typesetting: Is it also possible to > have some Latex plain text typesetting in Tiddlywiki using the Katex plugin? > > Background: > > Much of the formatting we apply to plain text in Foreign Language teaching > materials (slides, handouts and the like) can be considered "semantic > formatting". > Wikitext can not offer all of the text formatting features we need -maybe > in part this is due to limitations imposed by the browsers. > > Before the pandemic, I used to create most of my classroom slides and PDF > printouts in LibreOffice. But this year I finally decided to carry out a > transition towards the goal of integrating all my teaching-related tasks in > Tiddlywiki only. > > I have been using Wikitext tables as a way to hack some of the current > limitations on indents and line breaks, but this method of editing feels > rather strenuous and suboptimal. > > If Latex plain text compatibility in Tiddlywiki is possible, I would > definitely want to go down the rabbithole of making out a workflow. This > might involve doing the writing in a dedicated Latex editor, and then > exporting/pasting the text into tiddlers. > > What do you think? > -- 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/437e7616-fbec-4ed9-b05a-dc3d3ce59f0fn%40googlegroups.com.
