Extend parsing rules to accept • and o characters as list

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Dear community,

Would anyone have a solution to extend tiddlywiki parser such as to interpret "• " at the beginning of a line as a level 1 list (equivalent to a single "* ") and "o " at the beginning of a line as a level 2 list (equivalent to “**”) ?
These two characters are followed by a tab.

Rational : regularly copying-pasting text extracts from word and outlook where lists are using these characters.

Best regards,

Eskha

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idk tbh

but my initial thought is
create an input
that will replace the strings
(presumably via applying a filter?)

could be an alternative to
modding TW
(presumably via a plugin )

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I have done something very close to this but I am not available for the rest of the day. Keep in mind that it will need to add to/customise the core a little.

But @Eskha can you explain why you want this? If this is in content you imported, Perhaps its better to search and replace these with the correct wikitext?

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Hi @Eskha

Would an edit-mode tool like the one I shared for Excel tables work for you?
Please have a look, and if it suits you we could try to adapt it for Word snippets import…

Fred

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Thanks for your answers.

@TW_Tones : The context is copy / pasting from other applications. I could indeed use a search and replace in an intermediate tool (notepad++ for instance) but would like to bypass this step. Having to modify the core a little could be ok (especially if the solution could be to have a modified version of $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/rules/list.js

@tw-FRed : Yes this could be a solution.

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Sure I will find that info within a few hours, however there is no need to use intermediate tools for this this “reformatting” search an replace can be done in tiddlywiki, with at most a click of a button once set up. This way no extensions or core overwrites are needed.

Do you really want to use other multiple bullet symbols forever?, rather than a one off conversion to standard bullets ?

  • If the resulting content is moved to another wiki it will break unless you again apply the fixes.
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A one off conversion to standard bullets seems indeed a better option.

I will give it a go with @tw-FRed solution hacking the code in button-convert-to-table-dropdown.

I will share the result here if it works (or may ask new questions otherwise)

Eskha

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Done. Thank you @tw-FRed and @TW_Tones for your inupts!
convert-from-office-to-wikitext.json (3.4 KB)