Soren, this is fantastic, thank you!
I must say that your recent video on YouTube has advanced my understanding
of TiddlyWiki faster and farther than several years of muddling about on my
own with docs and scattered resources. I'm very much looking forward
to Grok TiddlyWiki.
Jack
On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 8:38:09 AM UTC-4 Soren Bjornstad wrote:
> On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 1:17:46 PM UTC-6 ja...@baty.net wrote:
>
>> Ah, so *single* curly braces, thanks!
>>
>> I'm not sure I'll ever completely understand when to use which variation.
>> :)
>>
>
> It's probably simpler than you think, there's just currently nowhere that
> summarizes it in an understandable form:
>
> - [[square brackets]] for links / to refer to the name of a tiddler
> - <<angle brackets>> to get the value of variables or macros
> - {{curly braces}} to get the value of fields or tiddlers
>
> Inside a filter expression, you use just *one* of each. Anywhere else,
> you use two.
>
> Macros add slight additional wrinkles to the <<angle bracket syntax>>:
>
> - Inside macros, <<__angle brackets with underscores__>> and $dollar
> signs$ both refer to a macro parameter, but the dollar signs use text
> substitution (understanding when to use text substitution and when not to
> is the only hard part).
> - Inside macros, <<angle brackets>> and $(parenthesized dollar signs)$
> both refer to a variable, but the dollar signs use text substitution.
>
> And last, {{{ triple curly braces }}} select one or more tiddlers using a
> filter, then transclude them – so you can think of it as the “super” or
> “extra powerful” version of normal double-brace transclusion, since it has
> one extra brace.
>
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