Paolo, I may be off track but if you are trying to deal with what are effectively data tiddlers with content in the form word: definition
Then Tobias mentions how to Iterate DataTiddler Indexes https://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Iterate%20DataTiddler%20Indexes That may contain some useful code Regards Tony On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 00:00:33 UTC+10, paolo b wrote: > > yes Mark, it did help - thanks. > > I also defined a tooltip stylesheet so that I can style it as I like with: > > > <$wikify name="answer" text=<<getanswer>> > > <a title=<<question>> class="tooltip"> <span > title="">//<<answer>>//</span></a> > > > As a side effect, however, my original tiddler (now converted into data > type) has lost its previous formatting. > > Is there a way to avoid this, e.g. with a smarter transclusion, so that I > can keep the original format?? > > Paolo > > > On Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 9:11:55 PM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote: >> >> I didn't use any stylesheet stuff with this, though I imagine there are >> ways to approach it that would. I created the "tip" with *span >> title="stuff"* >> >> If you create a data tiddler (be sure to mark it's type at the bottom of >> the tiddler) with this data and call it, for example, Quiz1 : >> >> tiddler: the smallest semantic unit >> field: a semantic unit smaller than a tiddler >> >> And then set up these macros (perhaps globally): >> >> \define getanswer() {{$(tiddler)$##$(question)$}} >> \define makequiz(quiz) >> <$vars tiddler="$quiz$"> >> <$list filter="[[$quiz$]] +[indexes[]]" variable="question"> >> >> <$wikify name="answer" text=<<getanswer>> > >> ''Term'': <span title=<<answer>>>//<<question>>//</span> >> >> </$wikify> >> </$list> >> </$vars> >> \end >> >> >> >> Then you can create a list of terms based on Quiz1 by invoking like this: >> >> >> <<makequiz "Quiz1">> >> >> When you hover over a term, it's definition will pop up. >> >> HTH >> Mark >> >> >> >>> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c687076d-9900-49a8-9883-509f5cb0fceb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
