Hi,

On 06/25/2018 09:37 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi Clement,
> 
> I’ve read the description and still couldn’t understand the need :) Macros 
> only need one content, i.e. their execute() method. If a macro needs to store 
> additional data, then it just can, in any XObject of an XClass (for example). 
> Or it can pass references to content as we do with the include/display macros.
> 
> Maybe a real example of what pushed you to create this extension could be 
> nice to understand your need?

I hope to release it pretty quickly (to use it in another project), I'll
make sure to have a correct example in it at this time.

Thanks,

> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
>> On 24 Jun 2018, at 17:36, Clément Aubin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi devs!
>>
>> I would like to propose a new extension called
>> application-extramacrocontent.
>>
>> Currently, macros can only provide one content field, that generally
>> contains the main body of the macro. Parameters are used to pass
>> additional information to the macro but are not the best to put large
>> text in them.
>>
>> With this application, it would be possible to add multiple content
>> fields inside the macro, therefore adding new possibilities to macro
>> creation and leveraging the problem of passing multiple big inputs to
>> the wiki macros.
>>
>> I'm not really sure about the name of the extension itself, so if you
>> have any better idea, please let me know :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Clément
> 

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