Hello! Does Dendron support multiple languages or would there be a workaround? My first thought is "repeating" the whole structure of my notes with

en.

and

es.

and

fr.

at the very beginning of each file.

Follow up question. Putting aside multiple languages. I'm interested if I could have 1 language structure of my notes in Dendron but sync them with Weblate where anyone can translate the raw text of the original structure, avoiding "repeating" the structure.

a few ways that jump out to me: 1. using file extensions 2. using metadata from frontmatter 3. using metadata from

dendron.yml

there are pro/cons of each approach. you can see my writeup about it here: https://dendron.so/notes/c3800271-dd56-46fb-8de7-e850f3c006b7.html

@User as for having 1 language structure for notes, markdown will probably be the canonical structure in any case. any transformations on it can and should be done using pods: https://dendron.so/notes/66727a39-d0a7-449b-a10d-f6c438185d7f.html

I've run into this, I think it could be useful at some point for Dendron https://mikemcquaid.com/2018/02/14/translations-with-rails-and-jekyll/

the Hugo yaml supports multiple languages fwiw

> @Buxel thanks for the reminder! yes it still is, it got time shifted due to the craziness of october. +1/2 weeks for this 😅 @kevins8 no worries, i can wait. I just remembered this feature after refactoring a big project onto smaller ones, each with their own journals. I'd like to use wildcards to aggregate all Todos from said journals

@User thanks for the link. still thinking through internationalization so this helps 🙂

> the Hugo yaml supports multiple languages fwiw @User you mean multiple frontmatter formats? we're talking specifically about file formats (eg. org mode, restructured text, etc)

ah got it! bad assumption after i saw the jekyll link 🙂

all good. multiple frontmatter formats is also cool but much lower on the prioritization list 😅

Hi @kevins8 any chance you would be able to share your journal schema for how you have the years and months etc. I tried but I suspect you have used a wildcard and I am not sure how to replicate. Thanks a lot in advance

@User

yml
version: 1
schemas:
- id: daily
  title: daily
  desc: ""
  parent: root
  children:
    - journal
- id: journal
  title: journal
  desc: ""
  parent: root
  children:
    - year
- id: year
  title: year
  pattern: "[0-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
  children: 
    - month
- id: month
  title: month
  pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
  children: 
    - day
- id: day
  title: day
  pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
  namespace: true
  template:
    id: daily.template.journal
    type: note

Thank you so much. I would not have gotten that in a long time

I'm getting this when refactoring. It stays on the Refactor Preview screen and nothing happens. Just what you see in the screenshot.

Got it. I skipped 1 hierarchy level. Instead of refactoring from the "root" level of that specific hierarchy!

@User glad you got it worked out! we'll show a nicer error message in the future 😅

haha!

What's "- selection2link will now auto title new notes based on the selection "? @User

what's "selection to link"?

its one of the menu buttons on lookup. it controls what happens when you have text selected and create a new note: https://dendron.so/notes/a7c3a810-28c8-4b47-96a6-8156b1524af3.html#selection-toggle

so if you toggle this option on, the new note created will link to whatever text you selected?

whatever you selected will link to the newly created note 🙂

ok, thanks for the explanation

I went through this when I was figuring how to use tags in dendron, where should I put this css code in? (to style my tags in the

[[#foo | tags.foo]]

format)

Cross-check me, probably haven't spent enough time in the docs: don't seem to be viewing/entering the notes in a way that gets the clickable checkbox GUI. (Open preview is not it.) I wouldn't rule out my not installing a relevant sub-extension.

@User Markdown is sensitive to spacing, so make sure you have "- [ ]". Also, Dendron uses the "Markdown Preview Enhanced" plugin. It should show "dendron.dendron-markdown-preview-enhanced" in the extensions list

Yes, GUI view thinks Dendron Markdown Preview Enhanced is installed. (Of the recommended ones on install, I omitted : Material Theme [looked cosmetic], Dendron Markdown Shortcuts, Dendron Markdown Links [looked like power user extensions])

I guess just make sure that you are opening the preview with the right extension.