Global_Variables

These variables are used and partly setup by the printer

Formatting Variables

Name	Description
MulleScionDateFormatter	A NSDateFormatter object to use for number formatting
MulleScionNumberFormatter	A NSNumberFormatter object to use for number formatting
MulleScionDateFormat	The format string to use for the NSDateFormatter formatting
MulleScionNumberFormat	The format string to use for the NSNumberFormatter formatting
MulleScionLocale	The NSLocale to use for NSDate and NSNumber
MulleScionNilDescription	What to print in place of a nil value
MulleScionStringLength	If defined: the maximum string length to output for any string value in expressions.
MulleScionStringEllipsis	If string gets truncated by MulleScionStringLength what to print at the end to indicate truncation

Internal Variables

Name	Description
__OUTPUT__	The object output gets rendered to
__FILE__	The current template file
__LINE__	The current line in the template file
__FUNCTION__	The currently executing function
__FILTER__	The currently installed filter chain
__FILTER_STACK__	The previous filters chain
__FILTER_MODE__	The currently installed filter mode
__FILTER_MODE_STACK__	The previous filters chain modes
__SELF_REPLACEMENT__	The object that the identifier 'self' gets replaced with
__TRACE__	Set it to YES to turn on tracing, to NO to turn tracing off

Predefined Variables

A small selection of Foundation constants is predefined for convenience.

• NSNotFound
• NSOrderedAscending
• NSOrderedDescending
• NSOrderedSame
• NSASCIIStringEncoding
• NSISOLatin1StringEncoding
• NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding
• NSUTF32StringEncoding
• NSUTF8StringEncoding
• NSUnicodeStringEncoding

Variables available through mulle-scion

Name	Description
MulleScionRootTemplate	available when printing with mulle-scion, it's the path of the template from the command line
MulleScionPropertyListName	available when printing with mulle-scion, it's the path of the property list from the command line
__ARGV__	command line arguments passed