Multilanguage tiddler - a use case for the new $slot and $fill widgets

[Michael_Schroder]

Hi, everyone,

recently I’ve read the thread How to make $slot and $fill palatable

How to make $slot and $fill palatable

I think you’re hitting the same problem I did. You’re right that unless the fill widget is directly inside the widget it’s trying to fill, it won’t work, which is disappointing. Using html sections and arbitrary tags I think would introduce the potential for conflicts without much more benefit. Imagine that your \widget uses a slot for the tag section. When people use your widget, they could use section as a fill, but they can no longer use section as it was originally intended under HTML5. The…

and then tried to become familiar with these new widgets.

I think $transclude, $slot and $fill are a very powerful set of new tools, which can ease our life with TW.
Only the current examples in the documentation are so dust dry. On the first sight it is hard to imagine, to find a useful application for it.

a real life example from my TW project: I need
to translate a text in another language and hold a text section of the source language and the translation in one tiddler. This seems to be easy, but what if you want to display this tiddlers in diffent use cases?

for example:
a) compile all the text sections as translation one after the other
b) compile all text sections to show only the source or
c) compile them to show only the translation…

It is possible with fields but not really easy going.

Here is my demo with the use of the new $slot and $fill widgets, the new mode of $transclude and the \parameter pragma.

https://slot-and-fill-demo.tiddlyhost.com/

slot-and-fill-demo.json (2.7 KB)

Hope some of you will find it useful as I do…

regards Michael

[jeremyruston]

Thanks for sharing @Michael_Schroder that is an interesting application, and one which I would like to be able to make less verbose in the future.