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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: create new files from capture
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:44:23 -0400
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Bill Wishon <bill@wishon.org> wrote:

> Bill Wishon <bill <at> wishon.org> writes:
> 
> > What I'm trying to figure out now is how to read the template from a file.  
> > The documentation says that it can be done by using (file "path/to/file") 
> > in place of the template text argument, but I haven't gotten that working yet.
> 
> Nevermind, my elisp skills are rusty (file "path/to/template.org") works fine,
> what I was trying to do required lisp code evaluation in that context and
> therefore didn't work eg: (file (concat org-directory "/template.org")) to do
> that I'd have to use (function function-returning-the-template), but it's not
> really worth it for what I was trying to do.
> 

Alternatively, you can use the backquote mechanism - see e.g.

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17612/focus=17620

Nick