template docu reorg

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn b/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
index 09a62342730996c94af813abfdbbaef2ff9529fe..838d15c1a7ca60572551ba692cd366ec7092c654 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This would allow setting:
 
        templatedir => "$srcdir/templates",
 
-.. and then the [[wikitemplates]] are managed like other wiki files; and
+.. and then the [[templates]] are managed like other wiki files; and
 like other wiki files, a change to them automatically updates dependent
 pages.
 
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ suffice.
 (This would also help to clear up the tricky disctinction between
 wikitemplates and in-wiki templates.)
 
+Note also that when using templates from "$srcdir/templates/", `no_includes`
+needs to be set. Currently this is done by the two plugins that use
+such templates, while includes are allowed in `templatedir`.
+
 > But would this require that templates be parseable as wiki pages?  Because that would be a nuisance. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
 
 >> It would be better for them not to be rendered separately at all.
@@ -49,3 +53,9 @@ wikitemplates and in-wiki templates.)
 
 >>>>> Just to be clear, the raw files would not be copied across to the output
 >>>>> directory? -- [[Jon]]
+
+>>>>>> Without modifying ikiwiki, they'd be copied to the output directory as
+>>>>>> (e.g.) http://ikiwiki.info/templates/inlinepage.tmpl; to not copy them,
+>>>>>> it'd either be necessary to make them be internal pages
+>>>>>> (templates/inlinepage._tmpl) or special-case them in some other way.
+>>>>>> --[[smcv]]