Hey Tobias, The *[ext[folder/file.doc]]* worked flawlessly. Thank you again.
I have many more questions but I should probably start a new thread. Best Wishes, Andy On 15 December 2014 at 22:37, Tobias Beer <beertob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Andy, > > >> There is also a folder named documents. This folder contains .doc and >> .pdf files that I would like to link to from within a tiddler. For example >> I have a tiddler explaining how to perform beam tuning, and within that >> text I would like to have a hyperlink?? >> > Yes, as mentioned, in general you can use the *[ext[folder/file.doc]]* > syntax to link to external files. > > >> that points to a pdf document in the documents folder so when clicked >> will open adobe reader, or if it was a .doc, it would launch msword. (I >> guess Firefox would basicly "download" it and windows would launch the >> correct application?) >> > I'm afraid, how firefox or chrome open such documents is, if at all, a > matter of their settings / restrictions. This is really a browser issue. > No idea how to force a browser to open local files with the respective > application. I think it's not ok that a user would not be able to ask a > browser to do so. > > But the issue is that I would like to then be able to copy the mywiki >> (containing the images and documents folders to a network drive or someone >> else's USB stick and have the tiddlywiki.html file work from the new >> location without having to change the path to each individual pdf / doc >> file. >> > Possibly, you actually have to open your file-browser and open the file > from there ...which sucks, because things used to be better in times when > browser were allowed to do... stuff like that. However, having those > relative links, at least you do have access to the file, if only to > "pseudo-download" it ...which is, quite frankly, stupid ...but what can you > do. > > Best wishes, Tobias. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/1QQwTg8cddw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something - Plato -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
