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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