I have currently submitted a proposal for adding a set of jinja based templates to the tg2 quickstart command, with it the paster quickstart command will offer you the option to use jinja based templates, which means a full set of template files for jinja based development.

I tried to mimic as best as I could the way the Genshi templates are done, meaning that the rendering is exactly the same and that works more or less the same way, for example, using macros to define certain reusable parts of the page.

The probable timeframe for this patch to make it in mainline should be around v2.2 which is the current development branch, this patch however can work with older releases, you should have at least TG v2.1.5 (currently unreleased, under the 215 branch) for it to work as only on this version a patch for jinja template name resolution based on dotted notation has been integrated, the last means that from 2.1.5 onwards jinja will be able to load templates named after their import, such as “myproject.templates.index”, instead of the path based ones such as “index.html”.

Patches live under my jinja branch of tg2devtools for those who would like to test it earlier:

https://sourceforge.net/u/clsdaniel/tg2devtools/ci/2dd496a588d8705802e46d226a750a40bce691a4/tree/