How to execute a Golang template when "{" or "}" are in the static part of the template?

Question

My Problem is that, I want to build a letter generator, which first builds a latex-file from user input, and then compiles this via latex to PDF.

The template contains multiple lines like this:

\setkomavar{signature}{{{.Name}}}

The latex part is \setkomavar{signature}{}, and the template part from go is {{.Name}}.

When I try to load the template, it throws this error:

panic: template: letter.tmpl:72: unexpected "}" in command

Is there a trick to help the parser handling such a situation?

Thanks in advance,

Tino

Answer 1

A better solution is actually to just use the built in whitespace operators, like:

\setkomavar{signature}{ {{- .Name -}} }

The - at the beginning and end will remove whitespace between that token and the next non-template token.

Hope that helps, see the docs for more detail