If I am reading this correctly, @Bob_Jansen and @Sapphireslinger are looking to use the standard ViewTemplates within the contents of the tabs macro?
If so, you can feed the tab content through the standard ViewTemplate items. Make a new tiddler to bring in the ViewTemplate using currentTab instead of currentTiddler:
title: tab-template-test
code-body: yes
text:
<$let currentTiddler=<<currentTab>>>
{{||$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate}}
</$let>
Then use that tiddler as the template for tabs content:
<<tabs tabsList="[tag[.Grammar]]" template=tab-template-test>>
This will show the entire tiddler chrome as the tab content:
If you want to exclude the tiddler frame, title, tiddler controls, etc… make a copy of the $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate tiddler then edit it down to keep what you need. Use that as the content template:
title: tab-template-test
code-body: yes
text:
\procedure temp-exclude()
$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/title
$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/subtitle
$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags
$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/classic
$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/unfold
$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/lazy-loading
\end
<$let currentTiddler=<<currentTab>>>
<$list filter="[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/ViewTemplate]!is[draft]] :except[subfilter<temp-exclude>]" variable="listItem">
<$transclude tiddler=<<listItem>>/>
</$list>
</$let>
The above is a quick example of only showing personal additions to the ViewTemplate tiddlers:
