Gee, I thought the situation was fairly intuitive. Thanks for your replies so far, but I should clarify:
I want to list all tiddlers tagged ‘definitions’ (say), and the list should look just like the familiar list-links EXCEPT that I see a tag pill (in its proper within the alpha-order list) for exactly those items which itself have tag-children.
For example, I have a tiddler for ‘logic’ (tagged definitions) and there are also other subordinate tiddlers tagging ‘logic’ as well. But the definition-tiddler for ‘premise’ is “bottom-level” – it has a definition tag, but nothing tags to it.
I don’t want tag-pills to display for ‘premise’ and other low-level tiddlers in the list, because it’s irksome to see a tag and click on it, and find that there’s nothing there beyond the tiddler itself.
Having tag pills exactly where they “contain” something is a visually clear way of inviting visitors to recognize that there’s “depth” to some of the items, and not to others.
(I think I recall someone somewhere had a nifty way that a tag pill could show the number of tiddlers tagged, right there at the right edge of the tag pill. That would be even better, but my hope is that if the number of items so tagged is zero, then we should see an ordinary link.)
Does that clarify?
Thanks!
-Springer