Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about generating LaTeX code with a template engine. Yesterday, I finished an application for a client which had a lot of templates; since my hands were already dirty in the template clay, I decided to revisit the whole idea and come up with some sort of merging tool. And yes, there’s also a duck involved.
I was playing with some code and, all of a sudden, I actually came up with something interesting: what if we have a tool that merges a list of datasources into a template and generate the output? Of course, I was aiming at TeX and friends, but the tool could be used for other contexts as well. Everything was ready, but I needed a name. Then: …