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Tools for printing filler text, a technique from the days of hot type known as greeking.

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Django Greeking
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This is a small library of template tags and other template-related
utilities for use with Django_. It contains a set of tools for printing
filler text in your templates, a technique from the days of hot 
type known as greeking.

.. _Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/

Feature overview
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Currently, four components are bundled into ``greeking``:

* Template tags for generating `lorem ipsum` text already available in 'django.contrib.webdesign`_.

* Template tags for printing snippets from Lewis Carroll's poem `Jabberwocky`_.

* Template tags for printing pangrams_ in a variety of languages.

* Template tags for importing an object_list of filler comments for use in greeking 'django.contrib.comments`_.
    

.. _django.contrib.webdesign: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/webdesign/#ref-contrib-webdesign
.. _Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky
.. _A pangram is a phrase that includes every letter of an alphabet. 
.. _django.contrib.comments: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/comments/

Credits
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- Packaging structure, documentation and style shamelessly ripped from James Bennett of http://b-list.org. I hope he 
doesn't hate me.
- Pangrams are drawn from Markus Kuhn at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/quickbrown.txt
- Comments drawn from the work of giants of our time.