> > Let me suggest a less abstract example, then. Your tb5 site offers a > macro for colouring text <http://tb5.tiddlyspot.com/#Colored%20Text>. One > can easily imagine passing a whole sentence, e.g. a warning message, to > this macro, and that sentence could contain a link. That link would not be > detected by the link-tracking system that drives the References and Orphans > tabs. >
I know that it wouldn't and I think it could and perhaps should. > There could well be a recommendation to always use single or double > quotes or triple double quotes for strings and reserve double square > brackets for tiddler titles only. > > But that still wouldn't solve the general case in which a quote-delimited > parameter can contain a double-square-bracketed link as *part* of its > content. > Whichever way the backlinks parser works, it would have to take care of that by having some kind of special parsing mode that includes macro parameters and element attributes, or simply matches anything in double square brackets that doesn't contain newlines. > Perhaps "tiddler-links", or TiddlyLinks but not "static links". > > I agree that "static" isn't the right word, but the alternatives you > suggest could apply equally well to links generated on the fly by macros > and widgets and whatnot. Perhaps we could speak of a "literal" link – a > link that is literally present in the text field of a tiddler. > How about a "manual link"? Best wishes, Tobias. -- 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.
