Hello, zope gurus! I've run into yet another newbie problems trying to build tables with DTML: * I need to know which position in the current batch i'm rendering. for this i use the expression: _['sequence-index'] - _['sequence-step-start']. Isn't there something easier? And btw sequence-step-start is not documented => this cost my some nerves. * The tables i build should always have the same numbers of lines, filling the rest of the table with empty lines if necessary. the code i use goes like this (inside dtml-if "sequence-end"): <dtml-in "_.range(_['sequence-index'] - _['sequence-step-start'] + 1, tablesize - 1)"> <dtml-var "standard_empty_line(_.None, _, num=_['sequence-item'] )"> </dtml-in> Again, couldn't this be done more easily? What about implementing 2 new modes: one which calls the <dtml-in> body exactly size times, and sets sequence-item to None when no more lines are available and another one which lets the last batch fit exactly? * I use dynamic dtml-methods to build the tables, and sometimes need more than 1 table per document. So it is very important, that i can use dynamic variablenames. but using start="_[varname]" did not work. Is there a way to do this? if not, would a patch that fixes the problem go into release or would i have to patch every new version of zope? * How can i use dynamic C-formats with dtml-var? I build the table from table definitions, containing a format string. Do i have to use DocumentTemplates? * I noticed that when throwing an error inside a <dtml-in previous|next> tag, the dtml-else path gets executed. i find this annoying as it makes debugging pretty hard. sorry, if all these are faqs... cu, bertl ps: please answer via private mail, i cant follow the list because the disk of the mailserver im using is full since 2 days :(