Re: [Gnumed-devel] placeholders in latex

[Busser, Jim]

On 2012-01-03, at 2:10 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:01:31PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>>>>    form_name
>>>> 
>>>>    (maybe also form_version ?)
>>> 
>>> The placeholder handler does not have that information. In
>>> fact, it does not even know it is replacing placeholders
>>> inside a form (rather than in something else).
>> 
>> Can you think of a manageable way of getting, outputted to LaTex, the name 
>> of the form associated with the template that was selected in writing a 
>> letter?
> 
> It needed inventing "injectable" placeholder the values of
> which would be injected into the placeholder replacement
> data source at appropriate times (and removed again later).
> 
> The list of valid injectables is in gmMacro.py, as with
> other types of placeholders. The syntax is "name::::max length".
> 
> Instances of the cLatexForm class now inject
> "form_name_long", "form_name_short", and "form_version" into
> the placehoder data source just before placeholder
> substitution. This also required passing the cFormTemplate
> instance to the actual form instance from which it was
> created such that the instance knows its template (and can
> thus query it for the name/version information). Other
> cFormEngines can do so as well as needed.
> 
> Done in git head.
> 
> Karsten

Am I correct to believe that injectable placeholders are not in GNUmed 1.1x but 
that they can be included in the next release?

-- Jim