Re: Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread Rob
I have used html templates before in the context of CMS systems which already had the templating engines in place and would automatically replace the templates with the substitutions. However, that's not really what I need. I create html 'fragments' in Leo which are then copy/pasted into other

Re: Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread Terry Brown
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 10:49:19 -0800 (PST) vitalije wrote: > For HTML and CSS there are a lot of pre-processors for example: pug > for HTML and sass for css. Both of them have more than one way to > define some section once and use it anywhere you like it. Basically > you write source files in pug

Re: Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread Rob
Hmm, unfamiliar with those tools, will check them out. Thanks! On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 1:49:19 PM UTC-5, vitalije wrote: > > For HTML and CSS there are a lot of pre-processors for example: pug for > HTML and sass for css. Both of them have more than one way to define some > section once

Re: Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread vitalije
For HTML and CSS there are a lot of pre-processors for example: pug for HTML and sass for css. Both of them have more than one way to define some section once and use it anywhere you like it. Basically you write source files in pug and sass format, and then compile those source files into the

Re: Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread Rob
Thanks for clarifying, Vitalije. Yes, I'm the only one who would edit them and I don't use external editors, so clones would certainly be the easiest way to do that. I use \include{file.tex} for LaTeX documents, but don't know about a similar mechanism for html or css documents. Any of the

Re: Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread vitalije
> > >- I could easily do that with cloned nodes. However, we are strongly >encouraged *not* to create cross-file clones. > > Any suggestions on how to accomplish that without using clones? > > As long as you are not using any other editor to edit those files and you are the only

Not-clones that act like clones

2019-03-09 Thread Rob
Suppose I have a xxx.leo file in which I write multiple web pages (or other document types, same question). - Each document is a separate @file (or @clean) external file. - Inside each web page are sections (nodes with or without children) that all need to be the same content (perhaps