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## Template::Plugin::Autoformat

| Template::Test

Template::Plugin::CGI |

Interface to Text::Autoformat module

### Table of Contents

- SYNOPSIS
- EXAMPLES
- DESCRIPTION
- AUTHORS
- VERSION
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO

SYNOPSIS | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

        [% USE autoformat(options) %]

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

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

EXAMPLES | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

        # 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 | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

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.

AUTHORS | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

Robert McArthur <mcarthur@dstc.edu.au> wrote the original plugin code, with some modifications and additions from Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>. Damian Conway <damian@conway.org> wrote the Text::Autoformat module (in his copious spare time :-) which does all the clever stuff.

VERSION | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

2.52, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.08, released on 30 July 2002.

COPYRIGHT | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

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.

SEE ALSO | [ Index ] [ Modules ] [ Top ]

Template::Plugin, Text::Autoformat

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