On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jason Lewis wrote:
> The thing I am wanting to do, is create a template, and then be able to feed
> it different data to produce different catalogues. IE give the layout some
> independance from the data.
I think you should really give more details. What do you mean with
"independence from data" (and what about IE???) ?
I would suggest the folowing:
1) write your versions of catalogues in LaTeX, without any TT.
2) Identify the common parts and the differences
3) identify the variables
4) implement the differences using [% IF %] and the variables
it should even be possible to have the template produced automatically
from the tex fiole and the data, by using Template::Generate
example
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
[% IF isCatalogueA %]
This is catalogue A
[% END %]
\begin{itemize}
[% FOREACH item=items %]
\item [% item.desr %] \dotfill [%item.price%]\\
[% END %]
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
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