NEW Plugin - MB Style Words…

Hey, Mark!

I’m just discovering your modern line of plugin appliances that will create leisure time for homemakers everywhere! 😊

This one’s another great example.

But I’m wondering– Would there be any way you could create a version that’s based on the number of period+space- or period-delimited sentences? Or even -delimited paragraphs?

Those of us who do print design – and some who do web as well – often set the first sentence or paragraph in a different style. Sometimes the type will be larger, which invites easy reading, drawing the reader into the story. Sometimes the first paragraph will be an introduction in, say, italics.

From a design standpoint, sentence- or ‘graph-based styling could be the most useful.

Regardless, the character- and word-based versions are very cool!

BTW– I’m also doing a site right now that can definitely benefit from Maximum Posts Reached.

Many thanks for your unrelenting awesomeness!

Hey, Mark! I’m just discovering your modern line of plugin appliances that will create leisure time for homemakers everywhere! 😊 This one’s another great example. But I’m wondering– Would there be any way you could create a version that’s based on the number of period+space- or period-delimited sentences? Or even -delimited paragraphs? Those of us who do print design – and some who do web as well – often set the first sentence or paragraph in a different style. Sometimes the type will be larger, which invites easy reading, drawing the reader into the story. Sometimes the first paragraph will be an introduction in, say, italics. From a design standpoint, sentence- or ‘graph-based styling could be the most useful. Regardless, the character- and word-based versions are very cool! BTW– I’m also doing a site right now that can definitely benefit from Maximum Posts Reached. Many thanks for your unrelenting awesomeness!

Hi Bob,

Hmm, will have to have a think about that one. As there are loads of ways that a sentence could be defined and my PHP skills aren’t that brilliant, I only just know enough to get by 😉 I will have to give that a bit more thought I suspect.

Will have a think over it though and thanks for the great idea. Nice to hear how other people use or need to use these types of things.

Also glad to hear that the other plugin will be of some use to you 😉

Will let you know if I come up with anything for the sentence type application of a plugin.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi, Mark…

Thanks!

Yeah, sentences can be a little tricky. If there’s a domain – like thoughtnozzle.com – in there, the period by itself wouldn’t be enough. So I guess period-space, period- or period-</p> might be better. Which brings up how EE stores the formatting, too…

I think I’m assuming the plugin would be most effectively used in a weblog where the authors are aware of the formatting needs, rather than a public-poster kind of site.

Anyway, just a thought.

Thanks again!

Hi Bob,

Totally agree with you on the last point. I think this would have to be dependent upon the posters knowing about it so that some formatting standards can be adhered to in order for it to work correctly. You could even have some kind of weird trigger word that would signify the end of the sentence which would definitely do it and probably wouldn’t be too difficult to code a plugin for but as you say if this were on a public posting site then it would be very very difficult as you wouldn’t be able to enforce any kind of standards which would probably cause all kinds of problems.

Let me have a think on this one for a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

I don’t have a use for it right away, so no rush. 😉

If you can place a why can’t you style the remainder of sentence with html tags?

I think this plugin was intended for things you can’t style like the {title} tag. {title} can’t contain html because it is used for elements such as <title>. Placing this plugin around a {body} or like tag would use unnecessary processing.

If you can place a why can’t you style the remainder of sentence with html tags?

I’m assuming cases where EE is going to be auto-formatting the posts, not the author.

I think this plugin was intended for things you can’t style like the {title} tag. {title} can’t contain html because it is used for elements such as <title>. Placing this plugin around a {body} or like tag would use unnecessary processing.

Well, I think I’ll let Mark say what his intentions are. 😊