I've written a new plugin, sectiontemplate, available in the `page_tmpl` branch of my git repository that allows setting the template by pagespec in the config file.
-- [[Will]]
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+> This is an excellent idea and looks ready for merging.
+> Before I do though, would it perhaps make sense to merge
+> this in with the pagetemplate plugin? They do such a similar thing,
+> and unless letting users control the template by editing a page is not
+> wanted, I can't see any reason not to combine them. --[[Joey]]