Display the caption of the links instead of its title by default

#1

I want to make WikiText links display the caption if the linked tiddler has a caption.
For example, [[company/apple]] was founded by Steve Jobs. should be automatically rendered as Apple was founded by Steve Jobswhen the caption of the tiddler company/apple was Apple. Although I know that could be done by [[Apple|company/apple]], I feel it redundant.
Where should I tweak to make it possible?

#2

If it can be done, my guess for tweaking: $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/prettylink.js

Yuck.

Instinctively, I am “nope, not for me.” I’d much prefer a transclusion template:

{{ company/apple || tLnk }}

tLnk being a transclusion template tiddler.

#3

You can use my uni-link plugin. There are several modes. I personally would suggest to use the aliases feature. So your link would look like this:

The link would be: [[Apple|?]]. The only thing needed is that your tiddler: company/apple needs an aliases field that contains the value: Apple. …

The advantage is, that you can rename your company/apple tiddler without breaking the link.

You can show every other field eg: [[Apple|?s]]. where “s” stands for the subtitle field. … So if you subtitle contains: Apple was founded by Steve Jobs the link would be all you would need to write.

[[aPpLe|?myField]] would also find the tiddler with the alias: Apple and show the content of myField. The alias in the link is not case-sensitive. Which is an advantage for some aliases if you need to write them in the middle of a sentence or at the beginning with a capital letter …

have fun!

#4

Thank you, Mario Pietsch. Definitely, your plugin is just (or better than) what I required.

By setting the value of $:/config/wikilabs/uni-link/field to caption, [[tiddler]] will display the caption of the tiddler. Is that correct?
My aliases could conflict with each other so I use this simple way rather than the alias approach. I can deal with renaming problem by a relink plugin.

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#5

Yes. This setting is global. Some examples can be seen at: uni-link — extended link functions

If there is no caption field, it uses the tiddler title, to be sure, that every link shows some text

#6

Whilst supporting the ideas in this thread to answer the Topics key question;

Display the caption of the links instead of its title by default

We can answer this by creating a tiddler eg caption-link containing
<$link to=<<currentTiddler>> ><$text text={{{ [all[current]get[caption]else{!!title}] }}}/></$link>

  • Then use {{||caption-link}} in current tiddler, or in a list where the currentTiddler variable changes.
  • Or use {{tiddlername||caption-link}} for a specific tiddler (uses caption before title)

I was preparing to give an even more involved answer. Rather than calling it caption-link I am building a tiddler “linker”. Using this {{||linker}} when ever listing tiddlers links will not only use caption rather than title but also allows other features to be added to the linker tiddler as I come up with them.

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#7

I don’t know about you, but this has “caption linker” written all over it, begging for the short moniker:

{{ || clinker }} or {{ || clink }} (not “cee link”, but more like “clinking wine glasses”.

Just because cutesy always makes me smile…

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#8

The problem with that solution is, that it doesn’t create backlinks. Uni-link does create backlinks for links and aliases

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Issue with pmario's uni-link
#9

Good, point and I would urge uni-link for that if needed, my example is perhaps the simplest case.

I am actually building a linker tool, in part triggered by this Topic, to make links from any list much more functional. I must keep in mind the possibility of making backlinks work, although personally I am not so worried in standard lists.

#10

Backlinks need JavasScript support. It’s needed to “walk” the tiddler parsetree and create an index if it should be performant.

#11

I was talking about designing my solution so it made use of current backlink detection if possible. Not reinventing it.