[Templates] indentation and text files

Andrew Beattie andrew@tug.com
Wed, 01 Jan 2003 22:58:51 -0000


>Is there a trick or something to handle indentation sort of like Perl's
>"here documents"?  I like to indent my if/then/else statements in the
>templates, and indentation has no visible side-effects with HTML
>documents, but with plain text files it messes up the formatting.

Just a sanity check...

You have read the section entitled "Chomping Whitespace" in

http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Syntax.html

and all the bits about CHOMP and TRIM in

http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Config.html

Havn't you?

Andrew