Re: [Htp-discuss] htp compared with alternatives?

[Daniel G. <dgo...@eh...>]

Thanks. FWIW (nothing?), it's going OK. For the book,
there are sections that get inserted several places.
I want to maintain just one copy of repeated sections.

I originally defined the sections as CPP macros. That
worked, but two problems: 1) No output line breaks,
and lines can end up hundreds of columns long, almost
awkward to look at. 2) Requires \ line continuation
characters in cpp file, another bother to maintain.

A few months ago, I moved to putting the sections in
a separate file with markers, and using sed / bash to
insert them at the proper spot. It worked, and was
interesting to set up, but two problems: 1) Slow.
Once there were many sections, it took > 5 seconds
each time I generated book. I generate it a lot as
I make changes. 2) Have to maintain custom code.

Today, in a few minutes, I switched to using htp with
<block> and <use> to insert the segments. It works
perfectly. Basically instantaneous.

Daniel

Daniel Ajoy wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:54:51 -0500, Daniel Goldman <dgo...@eh...> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Any advice about html pre-processor alternatives?
> 
> htp is the one I keep using.
> 
> Daniel
>