Of all the data you’ll use to build Hot Ink templates, probably the most important is the data associated with your newspaper itself. The “newspaper drop” is available and contains the same data on all templates and no matter what the context.

To learn more about Liquid, the templating language used by Hot Ink, read the Liquid wiki at http://wiki.github.com/tobi/liquid

Your newspaper’s drop is the main piece of data used for building your template’s structure. If you’re interested in fleshing out your template with a little more data, be sure to take a good look at what’s inside this drop. We’re still adding new features to the site, so look forward to this drop expanding significantly over the next few month.
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When working with Liquid, the Hot Ink templating system, each type of object (like an article, a mediafile, an issue or even your newspaper itself) has data associated with it that’s available for use in your templates. Which piece of data is available depends on which template your working in, but perhaps the simplest case is a Hot Ink article page template. On each article template there’s a variable called “article” representing the article requested by the user.

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