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Where can I learn more about the template language

Asked by Svenn

I finally got tired of typing the same text over and over again when creating new pages, and wanted to modify the template a bit. In the help there is not much description of the evaluation language used. Where can I find more info on the syntax of this language? What I am looking for is:

if page.namespace == 'trackers:trac' or page.namespace == 'trackers:worlist'
   task template text
else
  normal page text
end

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Best Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) said : 		#1

Did you check the user manual ? It has a page about templates. You can also
find it online here: http://www.zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Templates.html

For this specific example you should note that the "IF" clause does not
support the "OR" expression, just test for equality with "==". So you need
two separate "IF" clauses to achieve the same result.

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Svenn (svenn-bjerkem) said : 		#2

First off all, I had to place my template in Default.txt for it to be used. Documentation says _New.
The Calendar.txt uses some ELSIF and -%] [%- things which I also do not find in the documentation.
This made me thing that the template documentation may not be quite up to date with latest version of zim

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Svenn (svenn-bjerkem) said : 		#3

Thanks Jaap Karssenberg, that solved my question.

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Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) said : 		#4

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Svenn <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> First off all, I had to place my template in Default.txt for it to be used.
> Documentation says _New.
> The Calendar.txt uses some ELSIF and -%] [%- things which I also do not
> find in the documentation.
> This made me thing that the template documentation may not be quite up to
> date with latest version of zim
>
>
>
Not unlikely I forgot to update the docs with last round of updates. Will
check.

-- Jaap