Template:Dolorem ipsum/doc

This template outputs the "lorem ipsum" filler text, except instead of nonsense it is the actual text of De finibus bonorum et malorum. It takes four parameters: the number of paragraphs to generate, paragraph prefix, paragraph suffix, and an option to link lorem ipsum from "Sed ut perspiciatis". There are 20 distinct paragraphs.

Usage
– one paragraph – three paragraphs as bullet list – ten paragraphs

Parameters
There are four positional parameters and two named parameters, all optional:


 * 1 – Number of paragraphs to display (1..20; default: 1)
 * 2 – prefix character(s) to emit before each paragraph (such as a quotation mark, an asterisk for bullet list, etc.; default: none)
 * 3 – suffix (such as ending quote; default: none)
 * 4 – if set to yes, causes the first two words of paragraph 1 to be linked to Lorem ipsum. (default: 'no'. Alias: 'link'.)
 * join – if set to yes, causes all output to be emitted as a single paragraph (default: 'no'). Use of 'join' alters how prefix is handled.
 * cat – Adds article to Category:Wikipedia articles containing placeholders, unless no (default: 'yes')

Notes about font styling
For most parameter combinations, this template produces block-level Html output, and for those cases, font styling using wiki markup such as,   or  may not produce the desired results. (This is true of all templates that generate Html block elements.) If font styling is required, you can use block level alternatives, such as these:
 * for smaller font, you may use ⟶
 * for bold ⟶
 * for italics ⟶

The latter two have a parameter to make the text smaller at the same time. Alternatively, if you only need one paragraph of lorem output, consider using lorem ipsum span instead, which generates an Html inline-level element and so may be used with all the normal in-line wiki markup to alter the font style.

Exceptionally, standard wiki markup may be used when param yes is in use. See.

Linking "lorem ipsum"
To link the incipit (the first three words of paragraph one, i.e. Sed ut perspiciatis) to the Wikipedia article Lorem ipsum, either use param yes, or place  in the fourth positional parameter. generates:

Prefix and suffix
Param 2 is the prefix, and 3 is the suffix added to the beginning and end of each paragraph. In the example below, the prefix is, and the suffix is :

generates:

Note that if param yes is in effect, the wiki markup behavior of prefix metacharacters,  , and   is only apparent at the beginning of the output, because there is only one, long paragraph. For example, if prefix is with yes, the output consists of one long paragraph, numbered "1". The prefix character(s) will still be placed in the content where paragraph breaks would normally occur in non-joined results, but they appear as normal characters (hash, asterisk, colon) and are not interpreted as wiki markup.

Prefix and suffix whitespace
Note that whitespace is important in the second and third parameters. In the example  the prefix is  and the suffix is. The space in front of the asterisk prevents it from being interpreted as a bullet metacharacter, and it is seen as a plain asterisk. This results in the following:

In this example, the prefix is ; the leading white space before the asterisk forces the asterisk to be read as plain text, not a bullet metacharacter.

Running paragraphs together
All requested paragraphs of text can be joined together in one long paragraph using the yes param. Use of this parameter alters the behavior of param 2 (prefix): see for details. The link param (4) behaves as usual: will produce:



Since joined text produces a single string without line breaks and without block-level tags such as &lt;p>, if no prefix metacharacters are in use, the result of transcluding the template with yes is an inline-level HTML element, meaning that standard wiki markup for font styling (like bold, italic, or font-size such as '&lt;small>') may be used in this case. See for details.

Limiting character count to less than one paragraph
If fewer than 446 characters are desired, use lorem ipsum span and truncate to the desired size with Template:Str left:

will result in:

Full text
will produce:

Template data
{	"description": "This template generates a filler text for test purposes. Text generated is the original Cicero passage from which the well-known \"Lorem ipsum\" text was created, which is an excerpt from De finibus bonorum et malorum. It has 20 distinct paragraphs.", "params": { "1": {			"label": "Number of paragraphs", "description": "Number of paragraphs to be shown. A number from 1 to 20 is acceptable.", "type": "number", "suggested": true, "default": "1" },		"2": {			"label": "Paragraph prefix", "description": "Wikicode or text to prefix to each paragraph. For example, specifying * ( causes each paragraph to become a bullet list and start with an opening parenthesis.",			"type": "unbalanced-wikitext"		},		"3": {			"label": "Paragraph suffix",			"description": "Wikicode or text to suffix to each paragraph. For example, specifying ) causes each paragraph to end with a closing parenthesis.", "type": "unbalanced-wikitext" },		"4": {			"aliases": [ "link" ],			"label": "Link to Lorem ipsum?", "description": "Setting this parameter to \"yes\" causes a link to the \"Lorem ipsum\" article to appear.", "type": "boolean" },		"join": { "label": "Join all output into one paragraph?", "description": "Setting this parameter to \"yes\" causes all output to go into one paragraph.", "type": "boolean", "default": "no" },		"cat": { "label": "Add to category \"Wikipedia articles containing placeholders\"?", "description": "Setting this parameter to \"no\" prevents the page from being added to .", "type": "boolean", "default": "yes" }	} }