How to view rich-text editor about tiddlywiki5

[Jermolene]

Thanks for catching that Loren, I'll fix the link in a few days when I'm back on a proper computer

Since the 2010 preview of TW5 it's been totally redesigned and rewritten, and the rich text editing functionality has yet to be put back in. It's still on the roadmap, but likely to come after the 1.0 release.

I'm no less convinced of the virtues of rich text editors for many users, but I have been influenced by the growth of MarkDown, which indicates that people are more comfortable with markup than I would have expected.

Cheers

Jeremy

[MemberSense]

Yes, I agree that MarkDown is preferable. It'll be especially nice to
export from MarkDown to HTML. I'm specifically interested in a process to
convert to the ePub format, perhaps by outputting HTML for conversion by
Calibre?

Calibre eBook input formats:
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from

Also eager to create files that PhoneGap can turn into mobile apps.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Jeremy Ruston <
[email protected]

wrote:

Thanks for catching that Loren, I'll fix the link in a few days when I'm
back on a proper computer

Since the 2010 preview of TW5 it's been totally redesigned and rewritten,
and the rich text editing functionality has yet to be put back in. It's
still on the roadmap, but likely to come after the 1.0 release.

I'm no less convinced of the virtues of rich text editors for many users,
but I have been influenced by the growth of MarkDown, which indicates that
people are more comfortable with markup than I would have expected.

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Jermolene]

Just for clarity, I'm not proposing that MarkDown be adopted as the default format for TW5. Rather that I am noting the popularity of MarkDown as evidence that there is an end user appetite for non-WYSIWYG markup.

I am taking lots of good bits from MarkDown for TW5 wikitext, notably the line break handling, backticks for code and the ability to incorporate inline HTML tags. MarkDown itself (as opposed to extensions like MultiMarkDown) is pretty bare bones; it doesn't have a syntax for expressing tabular data, for instance, nor for transclusion.

In any case, it wouldn't be straightforward to splice an off the shelf MarkDown parser into TW5 with any efficiency.

In terms of ePub output, I'm actually quite interested in supporting the format natively but it should certainly be possible to feed TW5-produced HTML into Calibre.

Apropos of PhoneGap, I am working with the author of TWEdit/TWMobile on a new PhoneGap TW5 app.

Cheers

Jeremy