Can 'find & replace' do this?
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As a part of my own GTD methods, I use various TiddlyWiki files for various things: tracking software installs/uninstalls, To-Do, and more recently (most importantly) BLOGGING EE content publishing!
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I’ve also started using the TiddlySnip extension for FireFox. http://tiddlysnip.com/#About
For those useing TW, or some other Wiki software, you know the similar formatting commands:
''Bold''
//Italic//
--Strikethrough--
__Underline__
[[This is a Link|http://www.website-url.com]]Rather than tinker with Markdown, install a new EE plugin/extension, learn a new format method, etc. Could I successfully use the EE:// Find and Replace plugin to convert the above TiddyWiki syntax to semantic/compliant XHTML code?
<strong>Bold</strong>
<em>Italic</em>
<del>Strikethrough</ins>
<ins>Underline</ins>
<a href="http://www.website-url.com">This is a Link</a>Could it do that? And if it could, could it do this?
<strong class="something">Bold</strong>
<em class="something">Italic</em>
<del class="something">Strikethrough</ins>
<ins class="something">Underline</ins>
<a href="http://www.website-url.comclass=something">This is a Link</a>I know some of you might say, give it a shot!? But that would really just sidetrack me and my one-sided street and next thing you know, I’m on YouTube again.
The F&R plugin isn’t intended for this kind of extensive replacing. What you need is a plugin like Markdown or Textile, but uses Wiki syntax. If such a plugin already exists for, say, WordPress, than it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle to port that to EE. F&R won’t cut it, really.
Thanks for the confirmation Lowe.
I looked into a plugin for my installation of TiddlyWiki, to change the formatting syntax to something similar like textile or markdown, there isn’t one.
Is the textile or markdown plugin highly customizable? So instead of using the default textile/markdown formatting cues, I could customize it to use the TiddlyWiki ones? That would be far simpler.
OrganizedFellow,
You could try getting Markdown to be a TiddlyWiki parser but I wouldn’t recommend it. There is a large amount of work that goes into parsing text like that. You have to take into account possible nesting order of occurrence all kind of stuff that can make your life miserable. TiddlyWiki is written in Javascript right? I would look to see if someone has a PHP library already developed that parses TiddlyWiki code and see about turning that into a plugin in the same way the Markdown one has been done (Markdown’s native language is Perl but someone made a nice parser in PHP).
Jamie
Thanks Jamie. I’ve looked into several alternatives regarding. But none seem too appealing nor simple. The easiest way would be to just enter my content in plain text, with little or no formatting.