Mark,
Thanks a million. This clarifies everything for me.
Jack
On Monday, 7 January 2019 16:12:48 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:
>
> In this version, the base path is defined in a tiddler, mypathtiddler. It
> could be defined in a field of a tiddler, but this way is a little more
> transparent:
>
> \define pdflink2(name path file page) [ext[$name$|$path$/$file$.pdf
> #page=$page$]]
> \define pdflink(name file page) <$macrocall $name=pdflink2 name=
> """$name$""" path={{mypathtiddler}} file="""$file$""" page="""$page$"""/>
>
> <<pdflink "grammar" "Spanish_Grammar" "2">>
>
> Good luck!
> -- Mark
>
> On Monday, January 7, 2019 at 3:55:36 AM UTC-8, Jack Stephan wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Thank you. This what I am looking for. One final question, is there a way
>> to have my input to $path$ be the field of a tiddler i.e. title or else a
>> user-defined field, but the actual path itself (another user-defined field)
>> populates?
>>
>> Again, I really appreciate the help. I'm still getting the hang of this,
>> Jack
>>
>> On Sunday, 6 January 2019 21:14:24 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:
>>>
>>> Untested, but this should work (you may need to tweak the path, etc)
>>>
>>> \define pdflink(name path page)
>>> [ext[$name$|files/$path$.pdf#page=$page$]]
>>>
>>> Good luck
>>> -- Mark
>>>
>>> On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 4:51:00 AM UTC-8, Jack Stephan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello, thanks in advance for any help. I'm still quite a new user so I
>>>> don't know if I'm phrasing the question in a way that meaningful, but I'll
>>>> try my best. I am trying to incorporate all the PDFs from my lectures into
>>>> TiddlWiki and link to them and specific pages. Is there a way to use this
>>>> form of linking to PDFs:
>>>>
>>>> [ext[linkName|files/POD_5_MLST.pdf#page=8]]
>>>>
>>>> and to make the link name (linkName) page number (8) and the PDF title
>>>> (POD_5_MLST.pdf) variables in some sort of macro? Ideally the macro would
>>>> have three inputs, the desired title (linkName), the primary key of the
>>>> PDF
>>>> tiddler (labelled as field FID) which would call the PDF file name
>>>> (another
>>>> field called filename), and the page number to link to? For example:
>>>>
>>>> <<pdflink 'Existential Quaintifier' 'POD5' '8'>>
>>>>
>>>> To illustrate the structure of my PDF tiddlers, here is an example:
>>>> fid POD5
>>>> filename POD_5_MLST.pdf
>>>> lecturetitle Mathematical Logic & Set Theory
>>>> pdf pdf
>>>> scode POD
>>>> tags [[Principles of Databases]]
>>>> tcode
>>>> title POD_5_MLST.pdf
>>>> type lecture
>>>>
>>>> Again, thanks for the help. I hope I have explained my question well
>>>> enough, but again, I think I am still in the learning phase where it is
>>>> difficult to ask the 'right' questions.
>>>>
>>>
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