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Sounds interesting but probably won't work for this project yet. I'm hoping to turn over the template to the layout people and it sounds like I would have to hand hold (i.e. do) most of the templates for them if trying this;-)

Thank-you for the very generous offer!!!
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by psini (Deacon) on Aug 10, 2010 at 17:14 UTC

    Why? My templates are valid OpenOffice documents and the markup is something like "{$var}" to interpolate a variable, {if $var para} to have a conditional paragraph, and so on. The skills needed to generate a template file should be at the same level than those for using TT to generate HTML pages.

    Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man."

      That's the problem on my side more then likely. TT for HTML is beyond their skill set and everything HTML related lands in my lap as a result. Don't get me wrong, it honestly sounds like a great project you are working on. I was just hoping there would be a finished project with lots of documentation out there so I can tell them, go read this when they ask the same question for the twelfth time that day;-)

      I'm going to go look at the Open Office some more and float it out there to them to see if they would consider using it. (cross your fingers for me please)