Template::Plugin::Autoformat - Interface to Text::Autoformat module
[% USE autoformat(options) %]
[% autoformat(text, more_text, ..., options) %]
[% FILTER autoformat(options) %]
a block of text
[% END %]
# define some text for the examples
[% text = BLOCK %]
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet
airs that give delight but hurt not.
[% END %]
# pass options to constructor...
[% USE autoformat(case => 'upper') %]
[% autoformat(text) %]
# and/or pass options to the autoformat subroutine itself
[% USE autoformat %]
[% autoformat(text, case => 'upper') %]
# using the autoformat filter
[% USE autoformat(left => 10, right => 30) %]
[% FILTER autoformat %]
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet
airs that give delight but hurt not.
[% END %]
# another filter example with configuration options
[% USE autoformat %]
[% FILTER autoformat(left => 20) %]
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet
airs that give delight but hurt not.
[% END %]
# another FILTER example, defining a 'poetry' filter alias
[% USE autoformat %]
[% text FILTER poetry = autoformat(left => 20, right => 40) %]
# reuse the 'poetry' filter alias
[% text FILTER poetry %]
# shorthand form ('|' is an alias for 'FILTER')
[% text | autoformat %]
# using forms
[% USE autoformat(form => '>>>>.<<<', numeric => 'AllPlaces') %]
[% autoformat(10, 20.32, 11.35) %]
The autoformat plugin is an interface to Damian Conway's Text::Autoformat Perl module which provides advanced text wrapping and formatting.
Configuration options may be passed to the plugin constructor via the USE directive.
[% USE autoformat(right => 30) %]
The autoformat subroutine can then be called, passing in text items which will be wrapped and formatted according to the current configuration.
[% autoformat('The cat sat on the mat') %]
Additional configuration items can be passed to the autoformat subroutine and will be merged with any existing configuration specified via the constructor.
[% autoformat(text, left => 20) %]
Configuration options are passed directly to the Text::Autoformat plugin. At the time of writing, the basic configuration items are:
left left margin (default: 1)
right right margin (default 72)
justify justification as one of 'left', 'right', 'full'
or 'centre' (default: left)
case case conversion as one of 'lower', 'upper',
'sentence', 'title', or 'highlight' (default: none)
squeeze squeeze whitespace (default: enabled)
The plugin also accepts a 'form' item which can be used to define a format string. When a form is defined, the plugin will call the underlying form() subroutine in preference to autoformat().
[% USE autoformat(form => '>>>>.<<') %]
[% autoformat(123.45, 666, 3.14) %]
Additional configuration items relevant to forms can also be specified.
[% USE autoformat(form => '>>>>.<<', numeric => 'AllPlaces') %]
[% autoformat(123.45, 666, 3.14) %]
These can also be passed directly to the autoformat subroutine.
[% USE autoformat %]
[% autoformat( 123.45, 666, 3.14,
form => '>>>>.<<',
numeric => 'AllPlaces' )
%]
See Text::Autoformat for further details.
Robert McArthur <mcarthur@dstc.edu.au> wrote the original plugin code, with some modifications and additions from Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>.
Damian Conway <damian@conway.org> wrote the Text::Autoformat module (in his copious spare time :-) which does all the clever stuff.
Template Toolkit version 2.19, released on 27 April 2007.
Copyright (C) 2000 Robert McArthur & Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.