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Text::Greeking - generate meaningless text (eg to fill a page when designing)

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.

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>.

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.

Name

       Text::Greeking - generate meaningless text (eg to fill a page when designing)

Repository

       <https://github.com/neilb/Text-Greeking>

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 loremipsum 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>.

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

To Do

       HTML output mode including random hyperlinked phrases.
       Configurable punctuation controls.

See Also