Tinderbox Scholar - preview and export documents using Pandoc

Of course, Michael. Just let me know what you have in mind and when would be a good time for you. (Friday and weekends work best for me).

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Many thanks, Bernardo - this looks fascinating and for me opens up a whole new area of possible use of Tinderbox. I look forward to integrating the documenting / exploring / thinking parts of my work with the jotting down / writing parts.
And I wish you the best of luck with your thesis - fingers crossed!

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Can you explain in a bit more detail how the export works? I am stuck trying to export your example to pdf or docx. If you could add similar steps as you did for preview that would be great - many thanks!

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@abusch, I just pushed some changes to the github file with several improvements to make setting things up easier. Let me know if it makes sense and if you managed to get it to work.

This is so kind of you, Bernardo - many thanks! I hesitate to say that although I tried (even installed MacTeX in the course of it) I do not get it to export anything. Also, I do not understand how I can pick between the various CSS styles…

Just published the interview with Bernardo. We go through his process in detail. Enjoy!

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Thanks - I look forward to it! Can I express my thanks again for your work and the many videos? A real service for the Tinderbox community.

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Thank you. The support and recognition mean a lot. The undersung hero of all of this, however, is @mwra. Without Mark’s steadfast tutelage none of this would be possible. And, we can never forget all those that show up for the Saturday meetups, including yourself, that inspire so many ideas.

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I tried to load the tinderbox file Tinderbox-Scholar into TBX9 and may be the tinderbox file needs updating? Also the link to github leads to an error (not found).

Try this one Release New Pandoc-Tinderbox 2.0 · bcdavasconcelos/Pandoc-Tinderbox · GitHub

Thanks a lot, this was fast!

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thank for this @Bernard-0! It’s an highly inspiring set-up.

Did you @Bernard-0 decide on the “Thesis”-Container being a “Separator” in order to:

  1. hide its content-notes from the map-view
  2. and thus preventing the outline order of the content-notes from being impacted by movement of the content-notes in map-view? Or is the outline Order noch impacted at all?

Because:
I actually would like to have all the content-notes visible in map-view (for me the reason to start working with Tinderbox in the first place).

toggling Separator on/off

  • I just added a on/off-Toggle for the Separator. Seems to work for me … but I certainly don’t know whether this would effect some not so obvious template-functionalities.
  • How to you use map-view in this set-up and do you use map-view at all?
  • And if so: Maybe you could kindly elaborate a little bit on to what extent you use map-view … but then consolidate the content-notes (into the Separator-Mode of the “Thesis”-Container) in order to get things ready for publication.

Maybe @satikusala could add to this as well …

Thanks,
andreas

Map position shouldn’t affect outline order, Certainly, export works off the document’s outline even if the main view is map based. Outline order ($OutlineOrder) of notes, within a given container is reflected in the map view via the stack order (the z-axis), i.e. for overlapping notes, which is drawn in front of the other.

Whether notes appear on a map has no effect on export as that is controlled by $HTMLDontExport and $HTMLExportChildren.

†. Be aware though that moving or promoting/demoting notes in outline may result in an unexpected change in the note’s map position. If a move happens in outline view, by accident, use ‘undo’ rather than manually correct the move to avoid the change of map position.

thank you @mwra. That explains it well.

I am still interested in the thoughts behind choosing “Separator”-Container over non-Separator-Container, @Bernard-0.

Kind regards

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  1. and is there a way, of exporting to Markdown as well @Bernard-0 ?
  2. and how to handle footnotes: creating them in each note? using the markdown-language?

See here,I just put up some simplified exporting to markdown examples: Exporting a file so that each note in the file becomes a MD file - #5 by satikusala

There are a number of way to handle footnotes. We can review these on the next Patron call if you’d like. A few months back I devised a handful of ways for auto number footnotes.

That’s great, @satikusala. But does this apply for the “Tinderbox Scholar” Template as well?

Yes, it most certainly will/would. If you paste in the templates you need to make some modifications. Specifically add the user-generated attributes that my templates requires, $IsNoShowTitle, $IsNoShowText, $IsNoShowTitle, $HeadingOffset, $HeadingDepth, $Author, $Subtitle, $DateToday. You’ll need to adjust your Pandoc path as well. You may want to adjust the insertion of the author name, as Pandoc processes each not individual (can discuss this in detail at some later point).

Keep in mind. The Scholar template is an amazing example of the flexibility of TBX. The scholar template provides a tremendous number of customizable elements, all of which many people won’t need or ever use. So, don’t be afraid to dial back some of the customizations if you feel you’re getting overwhelmed.

Yes, it certainly would. It will depend on how you set up your attributes files, the use of templates, etc. Not to take away from the scholar template by saying this, but it is just that, a template. Templates and action code can be pasted into it, likewise the steps, methods, and ideas can be pulled out of it and put into other files.