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NAME
    Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text

SYNOPSIS
        use Text::Lorem;

        my $text = Text::Lorem->new();

        # Generate a string of text with 5 words
        $words = $text->words(5);

        # Generate a list of 5 words
        @words = $text->words(5);

        # Generate a string of text with 2 sentences
        $sentences = $text->sentences(2);

        # Generate a list of 2 sentences
        @sentences = $text->sentences(2);

        # Generate a string of text with 3 paragraphs
        $paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);

        # Generate a list of 3 paragraphs
        @paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);

DESCRIPTION
    Often when developing a website or other application it's important to
    have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed amounts
    of fake Latin text.

CONSTRUCTOR
    "new()"
        The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a
        Text::Lorem object.

METHODS
    All methods below will return a string in scalar context or list in list
    context.

    "words( INTEGER )"
        Returns INTEGER fake Latin words.

    "sentences( INTEGER )"
        Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin.

    "paragraphs( INTEGER )"
        Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text.

THANKS
    Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into
    the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.

AUTHOR
    Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@cpan.org)

SEE ALSO
      L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2003 by Adeola Awoyemi.
    This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.