Yes, I really should come up with a clever name for my web publishing system. But all of the good ones are already taken.

One of the things that separated this system from blogs is the lack of an easy way to have comments associated with it. I mean, sure, comments could be appended to the end of a text file, but they couldn’t be treated specially in the template. Well, with version 1.5, they can.

In your data files, separate the body of the text from the “appendix” by entering in --[Update]-- or --[Comment]-- … actually, the text in the center can be anything you want, it is just the name of the appendix. Like:

--[Update]--
I just did a quick search, and did find out that a
dime *does* have 118 ridges.

You can have as many appendices as you want, as each appendix is begun with a new separation line.

In your template, you now have an appendices sequence or list. In FreeMarker, you could display all of the appendices in order with the following code:

<#list appendices as appendix>
    <hr>
    <blockquote>
        <b>${appendix.name}</b> <br/><br/>
        ${appendix.contents}
    </blockquote>
</#list>

These appendices are both readable in the original text file as well flexible in the template. Yes, you could display only the appendices that were labeled as “Comment”, but this is just trickery in the templating system, and I’ll leave that example up to the reader.