Hi, I vote for the Template Toolkit (template-toolkit.org). It is easy to use, will significantly simplify MHonArc, and will allow people to render into the format of the week (HTML, XML, PostScript, or whatever they fancy).
For a quick intro, see http://template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Intro.html Best regards. Frank On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:23, Earl Hood wrote: > On March 8, 2004 at 18:46, Roger Wong wrote: > > > > Or better, have a complete template for each page type > > > vs the separate layout resources. > > > > I whole-heartedly agree with this statement/suggestion! Having separate > > resources to deal with--though probably more flexible--is a major pain. I > > just went through customizing them all to fit my personal needs, but it took > > me 3 days and I think it should've taken me just 1. (Disclaimer: I'm a > > graphic designer, not a techie.) I would have loved to be able to just > > create 3 HTML pages (date index, thread index, and message index) with > > special '$' tags and be done with it. Instead I had to go through probably a > > couple dozen resources to get OK results. > > The big problems are: > > * Compatibility: Any big change like this introduces compatibility > issues. Of course, compatibility could be ignored, which would > cause a "fork" in MHonArc. > > * Loop-based constructs: The index pages are the best examples. > > Someone mentioned using the Perl Template Tookit, but I have > yet to evaluate it. > > Regardless, I consider such changes a major change to MHonArc and > probably an incompatible change to existing releases. If (when) > such changes are made, they should be part of a rewrite. > > --ewh > >