39.5.1 Creating a template from
a project configuration file
To create a general configuration template:
- Copy one of your configuration
files (one that has the most commonly used settings) to another directory,
and give it a different name with extension .ini; for example MyTemplate.ini.
- Delete from MyTemplate.ini any settings
that apply only to the particular project from which you copied
the configuration file. Also delete all macro definitions.
- Delete from all your project
configuration files any unused sections that have settings in MyTemplate.ini.
- Delete from all your project
configuration files any settings that occur in MyTemplate.ini, unless a
setting has a different value. Settings in a project configuration file
override those in a configuration template.
- In your project configuration
file, specify the following to reference the template:
[Templates]
; Configs = path to configuration template file
Configs=path\to\MyTemplate.ini
Because you originally copied MyTemplate.ini from your
project configuration file, MyTemplate.ini still has
a setting referencing the next configuration template in the chain supplied
by DITA2Go; so the template chain remains unbroken.
The idea is to have as little as possible in individual
project configuration files, and keep most common settings in the template.
However, there are a few settings that can appear only in the project
configuration file; see §39.5.2
Deciding what to include in a general configuration template.
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39.5.2 Deciding
what to include in a general configuration template
39.5.3 Chaining
configuration templates