I changed ${${WebMake.OutName}.txt} to ${WebMake.OutName} and I renamed 
"index.txt" to "index", and now nothing works at all.

Am I missing something?

Do I need to put the .txt back in and change the metatable somehow? I 
guess I'm just confused as to how to approach the problem.

Wes :wm

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:04:49 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> Wes Meltzer writes:
>>  Sure. It's attached. Thanks for all your help!
> 
> OK -- I see it; what's happening is lower-level than the metatable stuff.
> Basically you've got the <out> files calling an out_helper content, which
> refers to page_text containing "${${WebMake.OutName}.txt}"...  but the
> content items aren't called "${WebMake.OutName}.txt"; they're called just
> "${WebMake.OutName}" because of the namesubst which removed the .txt
> extension.
> 
> e.g. for page music/index, that works out as:
> 
>   <{set page_text="${music/index.txt}"}>
> 
> which doesn't exist as far as I can see...
> 
> --j.
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