[reportlab-users] Template examples?

[Ken Corey]

The document I'm interested in creating has several types of page:
First page, general body page, section start page, appendix start page, 
appendix body page...and probably others that I don't yet know about.

I saw the Hello World example for SimpleDocTemplate that creates 100 
paragraphs in the document, and has a separate handler for the first 
page than from the rest of the pages.  I can see how I could subclass 
BaseDocTemplate, and perhaps add special pages for each situation 
(though I'm fuzzy how I would specify that page 6 is regular, page 7 is 
section start, page 8-12 is general body, page 13 is section start 
again, etc.)

If anyone has any template classes like this that they'd care to share, 
I've got *lots* to learn (just ask my wife...:^)

Anyway, I also saw on a web page 
(http://achievewith.us/public/articles/2007/02/21/produce-pdf-pages-with-turbogears-cheetah-and-reportlab) 
a tantalising discussion about a template built using a Cheetah 
templating tool like so:
<doc>
    <para>some text...
</doc>

Has anyone tried mixing reportlabs' PDF tool's templates and Cheetah 
templates?  Any thoughts on whether this would make it easier or harder 
than reportlab's templates only?

-Ken