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Tinderbox forum4/20/2023 "Salt, sea, sail, godly wind, sparking gunpowder and divine conquest. At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, she had 820 men aboard." HMS Victory 1 (Epic History) HMS Victory 2 (Epic History) How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works LINK Replica French frigate sets sail for America Whose journeys, quests, and triumphs can be captured in such epic dramas as the game Anno 1800 and the movie Master and Commander. Ships of the line like HMS Victory required huge crews not so much to sail her, as to man her heavy guns. "At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, around 145,000 men served in Britain's Royal Navy, a number comparable to European field armies of the period. There won’t be a gap between them but that should work.Must of have been a daunting, exciting, adventure: to be on one of these world class marvels of engineering battleships of its era. Assign that template to the container and then just export that as the selected note. If you want to export a series of documents, put them in the same container, ensure they all have the right template assigned, and then for the container note, create a separate template with one line: ^children^ in it. Or you can choose Export Selected Note from the File menu. To export you can just copy and paste the result in preview or HTML into whatever document you’re working on. Select that one.īack in the text pane, you should then be able to preview what the document will look like once exported by clicking on the button Preview and in HTML (if you can’t see these buttons at the top of the pane, select Text Pane Selector from the Window menu.) The drop-down list should include the template you just made. – Now set this as the template for the source document you want to export (open the Inspector, go to HTML Inspector, choose Export, then Template. You can confirm this is the case by opening the inspector for this note, and clicking on the Properties Inspector tab (the one with a 4 in it.) Of the three buttons below the Prototype drop-down menu, Template should be checked. – Once that’s done, you now have a template. (Remember exporting a note won’t include any of the Key Attributes you’ve added to it unless you do this.) – Repeat for any other values you want to include in the final document. Where you want the text of the source document to be reproduced, just put ^value($Source)^ . – Once you’ve saved that note, replace ^value()^ for any attribute where the brackets contain the attribute you want to be inserted in the text, eg. It seems to be best saved in a Container called Templates because that’s where Tinderbox will look.) – save it as an export template (say, Letter Template, or Note Template. It’s wise to just create the document as you’d like to see it with all the actual values in (in other words, the finished text, then – Create an Export template as you’d like to see your finished document (with all the attribute values) exported. If you look at your document in outline view, you’ll get a better idea of what it did: This should create a prototype called HTML Template, in a container (folder) called Templates (sometimes it’s called Prototypes) – Now make sure you have the Built in HTML template (Click File/Built in Templates /HTML) loaded. This can also include text (by which we mean the stuff in the pane where you type stuff although if it’s only that you want to export, there are easier methods than this.) – I assume you already have a source document, the one you’re hoping to export along with some of the Key Attributes you’ve collected in there. This can be one of the built in templates or one you create.ĢĚn export template - what you want the document to look like, with values for the various bits you want to insert from Attributes)ģ the source document- where the text and values are coming from You are going to need four documents to make this work:ġĚ template. (I’ve been told this is not 100% correct, but it works for me so far, so I’m sticking with it until I figure out what I’m doing wrong): The Key Attributes are those you’ve made space for in the area above the text pane: This is what I understand is the process for exporting documents that can include values from the documents’ Key Attributes (or actually any attribute, I believe. And this note applies only to Tinderbox 8 the interface is prone to change between versions (overall a good thing, but it does give these kinds of homespun guides a shorter shelf-life.) These posts all assume a certain level of knowledge about Tinderbox. I have started to collect my guides here but if you’re looking for guidance on the software, the best place to start is the forum, which can be very helpful. Consider all posts on Tinderbox as works in motion. This is a post about Tinderbox, the excellent MacOS app with a steep learning curve.
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