Good stuff Mark.
I will put a link to it in the next release of tiddlyclip..
-bj
On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 12:50:43 AM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:
>
> Hi BJ,
>
> That's pretty neat!
>
> Here's the macro with your suggested changes, the $:/tags/tiddlyclip
> flag, some attribution, disclaimer, and a bit of documentation.
>
> If you want to include it in your distribution that's OK by me.
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 11:12:58 AM UTC-7, BJ wrote:
>>
>> oops! your macro needs to be tagged $:/tags/tiddlyclip in order that tc
>> can find it.
>>
>> On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 5:37:52 PM UTC, Mark S. wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi BJ,
>>>
>>> That sounds like a really good idea. But when I try it, it gives an
>>> alert pop-up that says "html2twmarco not found". ("marco" is an exact
>>> quote).
>>>
>>> Is there something else I have to do to the macro (naming, location,
>>> tagging?) to allow it to be found?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 3:40:05 AM UTC-7, BJ wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>> good stuff!. You marco seem to work to a large extend. I wrote a
>>>> similar one to convert to html to tw2, and had about the same success, for
>>>> reference it is here
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://tiddlyclip.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Fbj%2Ftiddlyclip%2Fconvert.js
>>>>
>>>> If you make a small change in your code you can call the macro from a
>>>> tiddlyclip rule. The change is
>>>>
>>>> /* Check for special environmental variable. But argument text will take
>>>> precedence. */
>>>> var vartext = (this && this.getVariable) ?
>>>> this.getVariable("text2convert"): null;
>>>> if (vartext) intext = vartext ;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The tiddlyclip tiddlers are below, and allow content to be converted as
>>>> it is clipped.
>>>>
>>>> All the best
>>>> BJ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 11:32:37 PM UTC, Mark S. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is really kind of klugey (sp?) but it gets you (or at least me)
>>>>> about 90% of the way towards turning HTML from web pages into TW5
>>>>> mark-up.
>>>>> It attempts to convert most common markups including links, images and
>>>>> tables.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone who understood TW5 better would probably build a DOM tree
>>>>> structure, and then parse out the parts piece by piece.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I did was to simply apply a series of regular expressions. The
>>>>> problem with this approach is that mismatched tags can really throw the
>>>>> translation off the rails. So use at your own risk. You should check to
>>>>> make sure that all original content is still present. You are likely to
>>>>> need to adjust bullets and tables. It's likely that certain situations I
>>>>> haven't thought of will break it more severely.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this will be an incentive for someone to come up with something
>>>>> better ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> As always, make sure that you have a backup of any TW you try this in.
>>>>> Just import the attached json and then reload your TW file. Put your HTML
>>>>> contents in a designated tiddler. In the HTML2TW Launcher supply the name
>>>>> of the source tiddler and click on the convert button. The resulting
>>>>> mark-up should appear in the tiddler with the same name as the original
>>>>> tiddler plus "-converted" appended to the title..
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to BJ, Eric, and Jed for helping me with the launcher.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
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