On May 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On 21 May 2008, at 7:18 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>
>> On 05/21/08 10:03, "Simon Spiegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I know that the template doesn't contain this information – yet. But
>>> how about putting the template files and a plist file with the  
>>> needed
>>> information in a package ... Doubleclick it and everything gets
>>> installed as it should ...
>>
>> The type info is totally separate from the templates, logically and
>> in the code.  I don't see how you could move that with the  
>> templates.  For
>> the rest, it sounds like you want a separate document type?  That  
>> would
>> preclude easy editing of templates in TextEdit.  However, if the  
>> template
>> editor's state could be archived and saved such that they could  
>> always be
>> reopened, maybe it could become the exclusive way to edit templates?
>
> Certainy not, because the template editor is still restricted. There
> are lots of advanced template features not available from the editor.

Fair enough...that's possibly a significant limitation.

> Apart from the fact that it won't work. The whole ida of the template
> system is that it makes properties in the program available. When the
> properties are called they have no idea whether they're called because
> they're included in a template or not.

I've no idea what this has to do with wrapping up templates in a  
document in order for users to share templates more easily.
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