As soon as you want to pass something to a macro that is not in a value format you can use the macrocall widget, even on your own macros
<$macrocall $name="image-card" img=<<ximg imagename.jpg>> width="" align:"left" caption="" title="" text="" footer="" pos="top" alt=""/> But you man not even need to pass the nul values <$macrocall $name="image-card" img=<<ximg imagename.jpg>> width="" align:"left" pos="top"/> Tony fellow Aussie see https://www.meetup.com/sydney-twig-tiddlywiki-interest-group/ On Wednesday, 1 September 2021 at 20:51:12 UTC+10 rwi...@museum.vic.gov.au wrote: > Hi all > > I have been using the very handy ximg macro of Tobias Beer [ > http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#External%20Image%20Path] to provide a URL > where my images live. Works great, except that I now wish to use the > image-card macro from the shiraz plugin for more options to display > images. According to https://tiddlywiki.com/#MacroCallWidget : > Macro parameters are specified as widget attributes, thus allowing > indirection via {{title!!field}}, <<macroname>> or {{{filter}}} > > so i have tried including <<ximg imagename.jpg>> within the standard > syntax > <<image-card img:"imagename.jpg" width:"" align:"left" caption:"" > title:"" text:"" footer:"" pos:"top" alt:"">> > > to get > > <<image-card img:"<<ximg imagename.jpg>>" width:"" align:"left" > caption:"" title:"" text:"" footer:"" pos:"top" alt:"">> > > but having tried various modifications I now surmise that nesting > MacroCallWidgets is not allowed. Nor could I find this addressed in the > group archives > > No doubt the solution is dead simple but not for beginners like me. I'd > be grateful for help > > very many thanks, Robin > > [I would have posted this to the new Talk Tiddlywiki discourse but I'm > _still_ waiting for my confirmation email to complete registration] > > > > > -- 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/4bb5d0bc-975e-4bbc-a4d4-8fc76f18ab95n%40googlegroups.com.