Some nice templates in the app. I'd like to see a greater use of constants, and fewer things as hardcoded literals sprinkled through the template file's functions.
I think e.g. some numeric literals are fine, but I'm looking at the "Department News" template right now - changing the typeface or colour scheme ought to be a one-line change really.
I know it's probably the case that when typesetting, as so much is literal information, it's going to be harder to separate constants than when working with typical source code, but I think it's still important to encourage users to write re-usable code, and follow basic principles to make it easy to change and re-configure their work - because as the old adage goes, anything that you think is constant now, will change at some time in the future! So I think at least basic settings defining the appearance or settings of the template should be at the top using let statements.
laurmaedje
commented
10 months ago
Hi,
Some nice templates in the app. I'd like to see a greater use of constants, and fewer things as hardcoded literals sprinkled through the template file's functions.
I think e.g. some numeric literals are fine, but I'm looking at the "Department News" template right now - changing the typeface or colour scheme ought to be a one-line change really.
I know it's probably the case that when typesetting, as so much is literal information, it's going to be harder to separate constants than when working with typical source code, but I think it's still important to encourage users to write re-usable code, and follow basic principles to make it easy to change and re-configure their work - because as the old adage goes, anything that you think is constant now, will change at some time in the future! So I think at least basic settings defining the appearance or settings of the template should be at the top using
letstatements.Thanks!