[Zope] Better way to batch rows in a table?

Hi, I found this recipe: http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/998066576 The result is exactly what I'm looking for. Is there a way to do this purely in a page template? I was trying to do something clever with repeat/item/number | first | last, but am getting bogged down. Does anyone have a recipe with this result that doesn't use an external script for batching? This isn't a huge deal, the above solution is good enough, I was just surprised that this wasn't something that ZPT handled natively. Chris