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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by olah_1 on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:09PM (#30151592)
It would be awesome if you used a templating system for the writing process. Then the writers can have templates and just change who ${partyA} is.
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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by hkhanna on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:12PM (#30151650)
That's planned. And it will go further than existing templates where it's just fill in the blank.

An idea I had a couple jobs ago -- which I intend to develop now -- is the ability to encode logic into the templates so that the template can be used in all sorts of business situations.

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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by broses on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:23PM (#30152857)
It's probably a good idea to implement this with an existing language so that you don't end up making your own programming language. For example you could just make the whole document a JavaScript template string.
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