NAME¶
Text::Greeking - generate meaningless text (eg to fill a page when designing)
SYNOPSIS¶
use Text::Greeking;
my $g = Text::Greeking->new;
$g->paragraphs(1,2) # min of 1 paragraph and a max of 2
$g->sentences(2,5) # min of 2 sentences per paragraph and a max of 5
$g->words(8,16) # min of 8 words per sentence and a max of 16
print $g->generate; # use default Lorem Ipsum source
DESCRIPTION¶
Greeking is the use of random letters or marks to show the overall appearance of
a printed page without showing the actual text. Greeking is used to make it
easy to judge the overall appearance of a document without being distracted by
the meaning of the text.
This is a module is for quickly generating varying meaningless text from any
source to create this illusion of the content in systems.
This module was created to quickly give developers simulated content to fill
systems with simulated content. Instead of static Lorem Ipsum text, by using
randomly generated text and optionally varying word sources, repetitive and
monotonous patterns that do not represent real system usage is avoided.
METHODS¶
- Text::Greeking->new
- Constructor method. Returns a new instance of the class.
- $g->init
- Initializes object with defaults. Called by the constructor. Broken out
for easy overloading to enable customized defaults and other
behaviour.
- $g->sources([\@ARRAY])
- Gets/sets the table of source word collections current in memory as an
ARRAY reference
- $g->add_source($text)
- The class takes a body of text passed as a SCALAR and processes it into a
list of word tokens for use in generating random filler text later.
- $g->generate
- Returns a body of random text generated from a randomly selected source
using the minimum and maximum values set by paragraphs, sentences, and
words minimum and maximum values. If generate is called without any
sources a standard Lorem Ipsum block is used added to the sources and then
used for processing the random text.
- $g->paragraphs($min,$max)
- Sets the minimum and maximum number of paragraphs to generate. Default is
a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8.
- $g->sentences($min,$max)
- Sets the minimum and maximum number of sentences to generate per
paragraph. Default is a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8.
- $g->words($min,$max)
- Sets the minimum and maximum number of words to generate per sentence.
Default is a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 15.
SEE ALSO¶
WWW::Lipsum - an interface to lipsum.com <
http://www.lipsum.com>.
Text::Lorem - generate random latin-looking text.
Text::Lorem::More - class that provides methods for generating various types of
structured latin filler text, such as names, words, sentences, paragraphs,
titles, hostnames, etc.
Text::Lorem::JA - generate Japanese filler text.
WWW::Lipsum::Chinese - generate Chinese filler text.
Text::Greeking::zh_TW - another module for generating Chinese filler text.
Acme::CorpusScrambler - generates filler text based on text that you provide;
falls back to the using the corpus for Text::Greeking::zh_TW.
Template::Plugin::Text::Greeking - a template toolkit plugin for
"Text::Greeking".
Faker - an extensible framework for generating fake data, including
lorem
ipsum style filler text.
Lingua::ManagementSpeak - generates filler text in 'management speak'.
Toby Inkster <
https://metacpan.org/author/TOBYINK> - pedant.
The wikipedia page on Greeking <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeking>.
TO DO¶
- HTML output mode including random hyperlinked phrases.
- Configurable punctuation controls.
REPOSITORY¶
<
https://github.com/neilbowers/Text-Greeking>
LICENSE¶
The software is released under the Artistic License. The terms of the Artistic
License are described at
<
http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html>.
AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT¶
Except where otherwise noted, Text::Greeking is Copyright 2005-2009, Timothy
Appnel, tima@cpan.org. All rights reserved.