ToC with alternative titles

#1

I am trying to create a ToC with tiddlers showing not the default title or caption fields but the content of an alternative title, that is, a value in the field named “alt-caption”, for example. This is to have the content displayed in multiple languages.

I thought I could use PMario’s tocP plugin to do this but I can’t make it work. It seems to work with custom fields that need to mark parental relationships (if I understood it correctly).

Is there a way how to have multilingual titles in Table of Content?

#2

You can actually do it with the built in toc by creating a local function with the logic needed.

eg \function toc-caption()[<currentTiddler>get[alt-caption]]

#3

To preserve the TWCore default whitespace, CSS and fallback handling, I suggest:

\define toc-caption()
\whitespace trim
<span class="tc-toc-caption tc-tiny-gap-left">
<$set name="tv-wikilinks" value="no">
  <$transclude field="alt-caption">
    <$transclude field="caption">
      <$view field="title"/>
    </$transclude>
  </$transclude>
</$set>
</span>
\end

notes:

  • tc-toc-caption and tc-tiny-gap-left CSS classes are applied
  • embedded wikilink syntax is disabled
  • if alt-caption field exists, render it
  • else, if caption field exists, render it
  • else display title field value.

-e

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#4

Thank you, Eric, now it’s much clearer for me.
I have not made it work yet, but I will get there, just need more time to test it all.

Thank you, again!

Albertina