Template::Plugin::Autoformat - Interface to Text::Autoformat module

NAME

Template::Plugin::Autoformat - Interface to Text::Autoformat module

SYNOPSIS

    [% USE autoformat(options) %]

    [% autoformat(text, more_text, ..., options) %]

    [% FILTER autoformat(options) %]
       a block of text
    [% END %]

EXAMPLES

    # 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) %]

DESCRIPTION

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 the Text::Autoformat manpage for further details.

AUTHORS

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.

VERSION

2.59, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.10, released on 24 July 2003.

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.