Changelog 1.5

Table of Contents


Totally redesigned for TinderboxSix

  • Dashboards—Dashboards totally redesigned to accommodate the new font rendering and scaling. All dashboards now look great—even better than before.
  • Stamps—Since the limit on the string-length of stamps has been removed, the Clean•Look stamp and its kin really scrub those notes to return them to their attributes to inherited values.
  • Agents—The $AgentPriority(agent)=-1 has been removed from all agent code now that Update Agents Now exists.
  • Prototypes—The Prototypes container note has been moved to the root to harmonize with automatic prototype checking for system prototypes such as Exploded Notes.
  • Documentation—A biggie.

New Feature: Responsive HTML imagemaps

You can now head your posts with a responsive HTML imagemap.

Using OmniGraffle

Using Tinderbox

New Feature: Pager

Previous, Up, and Next buttons are smartly added to the bottom of posts and pages. To enable this, posts that are not blog-ready are automatically moved to the end of the category, so you’ll never have a broken Previous or Next button.

If the exported note is a footnote ($blogExpOpt contains FOOTNOTE), the pager is replaced with a Go Back button.

New Agent: boldface if aliases

New export option: TABLE

New export option: NOCOMPILE

New export option: COMPILE

New export option: $SidebarLeft

You can now place sidebar on the left and your main text on the right.

Just check $blogSidebarLeft for the prototypes or notes that you want to export with a lefthand sidebar.

Depricated
Depricated as of version 1.7.1

Use the $blogFrameOpt SIDEBARLEFT.

Checkbox
$SidebarLeft

Moves sidebar to left side of exported webpage

Scope:   self

New Macro: BLANK

BLANK is a null macro. It lets you embed an in-line annotation, such as a weblink or reference, that you want to hide during export.

Macro
BLANK

Exports as nothing (use for comments)

Syntax: text to hide

New Macro: ImgHere

New Macro: PanelHere

Embed a relevant article with the point or upshot you care about in the heading, and the title (and active link) in the body, with optional summary and abstract.

New Macro: IncWell

Embed the body of another note inside a well.

Macro
IncWell

Embeds a note inside a well

Syntax: notename

New Macro: IncPanel

Embed the title and body of another note inside a panel, with a link in the upper right.

Macro
IncPanel

Embeds a note as a default-class Panel

Syntax: notename

New Macro: Glyph

New Macro: MediaThumbs

New Macro: TableHere

It’s easy to insert a table on-the-fly with the TableHere macro. By beginning the body on its own line and using multiple tabs between cells, you’ll find the BoxPress table markup quite human-readable.

Macro
TableHere

Translates a tab-separated table into an HTML table

Syntax: caption, head, body

New Prototypes for research

New Stamps

These guys are ordered by frequency of use—or at least my estimate for those of use who really use the crap out of Tinderbox.

  1. Hiding all Key Attributes for all notes is One
  2. Toggling smart quotes is Two.
  3. Turning notes’ export on and off is Three.

Full list here.

Global display expression togglers

Switch on the date, outline number, and descendent count for all your content notes with a stamp-run. These will be your export names if you like—just set $DEExport (Display Expression Export) for normal_note to true. So now it’s easy to turn your outline or novel or article into a meta-date rich document. But you probably just use these to see better while working.

Global key attribute setters

Switch between different sets of Key Attributes—Basic, Date, Image, Source, and Tech. And hide Key Attributes display for all your content notes. Each deserves a stamp.

Better DAY/NIGHT color schemes

Day and Nite color schemes (for use with System Preferences > Accessibility > Invert Colors) get stamps. Make your screen black and text light green—just like olden times! With the Color: Night stamp you can compliment your retro look by dimming the View Pane (the left-hand or graphical pane) to inspiring deep glows. Text View defaults as black, but you can change that, too. Why not a deep, nearly black, crimson? No one can enjoy writing while looking straight into a giant rectilinear white lightbulb in darkness. That’s obviously false, of course, but it fits the promotional style of these little bulletpoints.

Better name-changers

Three name-changing stamps are back. One adds an actual number prefix to the notes you select, this number being their outline order. Another runs Mark Anderson’s quotify shell command. A third is my gift to humanity, useful for historical research or writing where time-sorting is important. Begin your note title with a year, colon, space. Make a bunch this way. Then select them and run this stamp. It cuts away the dumb number prefix from the note and makes it smart (puts it inside the note as a date attribute), and also make it an instance of date_note, which gets special export.

Improved: color harmony

The border of the Table of Contents box on individual Category: ___ pages now inherits its color from that of the navbar (DashNavBar).

Improved: negative dates

Notes with prototype event_note displays negative dates as BCE.