Sharing custom "fan" gallery for book-cover images, using custom story tiddler template

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#1

Since it came up in discussion with @Lamnatos, I thought it might be worth posting this little variation on an image-gallery.

Based on the “custom story tiddler template” at tw-com, my biblio-wiki adapts it to show an array of book covers:

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The array is semi-randomized with the help of Yaisog’s choose-random plugin (semi-randomized meaning that one can have a favorites list, and fiddle with the balance of those within the total set shuffled into the final result in any given shuffle).

  • Specify how many tiddlers to display, click “shuffle” to get a fresh assortment.
  • Hover over a book to see its cover come forward and do a subtle animated “buoyancy” trick…
  • Click on any displayed image to open its corresponding biblio tiddler.

I’ve added some explanatory text in the details drop-down, with edit-text widgets so that you all can play with the output and peek beneath the hood a bit.

I’m slowly building up to a shareable community edition for bibliographic wikis, building on refnotes by @Mohammad, with GUI bells and whistles for what @Charlie_Veniot calls “intertwingularity”. Stay tuned, or drop me a DM if you have questions or requests.

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#2

Beautiful! I love it, and I love the combination of favorites and random! I can’t decide if I like this slightly ragged look over a more clear arc.

But now you have me wanting to read up on Biosemiotics, especially as I live with two women who seem to be able to accurately tell you what this horse whinny means and why it’s different from that one!

And the 2009 Langton title simply sounds lonely! :slight_smile:

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#3

Yes, Rae Langton gets the prize for taking a collection of essays about Immanuel Kant (ok, also the nature of representation and recognition, etc.) and choosing a title that taps right into personal and cultural anxieties.

#4

I was of course thinking about the other 2009 Langton title.

But you might want to know that they seem slightly jumbled, as the booktitle in langton2009duty seems to be pointing to the wrong book… unless there’s some odd cross-pollination between the two titles.

#5

Ah, it seems I need to troubleshoot something about the auto-generated citation at the bottom (which relies on refnotes, but in an off-label way)… (The entry for “Duty and Desolation” corresponds to one chapter in the book. Titles in quotes should be chapters or articles, and titles in italics should be books.) :thinking:

Thanks, @Scott_Sauyet — I had generated a reflist for the incollection entry-type (such as chapter from a book) type, but failed to modify one of the necessary fields. It should behave a bit better now.

#6

I haven’t dug deeply enough into this or into bibtex to really know what that means. But I’ll believe you.

I don’t know if that should have fixed the current data or only for new ones being added. And I don’t know if your fix is posted to the tiddlyhost site. But I still see this:

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