Changelog 1.5
Table of Contents
- Totally redesigned for TinderboxSix
- New Feature: Responsive HTML imagemaps
- New Feature: Pager
- New Agent: boldface if aliases
- New export option: TABLE
- New export option: NOCOMPILE
- New export option: COMPILE
- New export option: $SidebarLeft
- New Macro: BLANK
- New Macro: ImgHere
- New Macro: PanelHere
- New Macro: IncWell
- New Macro: IncPanel
- New Macro: Glyph
- New Macro: MediaThumbs
- New Macro: TableHere
- New Prototypes for research
- New Stamps
- Global display expression togglers
- Global key attribute setters
- Better DAY/NIGHT color schemes
- Better name-changers
- Improved: color harmony
- Improved: negative dates
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
$AgentPriority(agent)=-1
has been removed from all agent code now that Update Agents Now exists. - Prototypes—The Prototypes container note has been moved to the root to harmonize with automatic prototype checking for system prototypes such as Exploded Notes.
- Documentation—A biggie.
New Feature: Responsive HTML imagemaps
You can now head your posts with a responsive HTML imagemap.
New Feature: Pager
Previous, Up, and Next buttons are smartly added to the bottom of posts and pages. To enable this, posts that are not blog-ready are automatically moved to the end of the category, so you’ll never have a broken Previous or Next button.
If the exported note is a footnote ($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.
Use the $blogFrameOpt
SIDEBARLEFT.
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.
New Macro: ImgHere
Embed an image inline at the same height as your text.
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.
New Macro: IncPanel
Embed the title and body of another note inside a panel, with a link in the upper right.
New Macro: Glyph
Embed an image inline at the same height as your text.
New Macro: MediaThumbs
Embed thumbnail images with super easy markup!
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.
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.
- Hiding all Key Attributes for all notes is One
- Toggling smart quotes is Two.
- 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.