Allowing specification of delimiters

[Ramnath Vaidyanathan]

I would like to use mustache templates with latex. But the trouble is that latex makes extensive use of { and } which interferes with mustache syntax. I read in the mustache documentation that it is possible to customize delimiters. Does whisker already support it, or can it be made to support it?

[Edwin de Jonge]

Whisker supports it partially:

• Setting the delimiters in the beginning of the template works.
• Changing the delimiters back and forth in the document doesn't work

(see for example the tests in [https://github.com/edwindj/whisker/tree/master/inst/tests]) most work of "testdelimiters.R", except for test 3 to 7.)

[Ramnath Vaidyanathan]

That is terrific. Is there a way to redefine the triple mustache as well?

[Edwin de Jonge]

Well strictly speaking no, but there is an alternative syntax for triple mustache
In stead of triple mustache '{{{name}}}' you can use '{{&name}}' which still works when changing the delimiters

(see http://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html)

[Ramnath Vaidyanathan]

Awesome. Thanks!