I've been working with the new chicago template on my blog and found a workaround for something that was bugging me.

In the footer where I display article information such as article rss feed, last updated date and comment count, my template originally looked like this

[rss logo]  | updated:  $_article_edited  | $_comment_count

...and that looks good while comments are open but if the commenting period expires and no comments were entered, Vine Type will return nothing for $_formatted_comment_count making the output look like this

[rss] | updated: 15 Nov 2007 |

and that "|" at the end was bugging me.  So I removed the bar from the template and changed the vinetype.config file for the formatted comment count to look like this:

$formatted_comment_0: | awaiting first comment

$formatted_comment_1: | $_comment_count comment

$formatted_comment_2: | $_comment_count comments

and the config file like this

 [rss logo]  | updated:  $_article_edited  $_comment_count

putting the bar into the config file.  Now if articles close without comments, no bar appears after the date.

 

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Sincerely,

Carl
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