ut after seeing this thread I'm going to take a shot at implementing
FormSetField (or something like it) myself. If anyone has any code -
or more arguments for or against that haven't been covered - I'd love
to hear them before diving in.
John Debs
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On Dec 29, 9:08 pm, James Bennett wrote:
> It is built in, though, it's just called "slice". The only thing
> people seem to offer to differentiate this proposal from the existing
> filter is that the proposed "truncate" would add an ellipsis at the
> end, and honestly I'm not really convinced
On Dec 30, 7:06 am, Russell Keith-Magee
wrote:
> Secondly, IMHO raw truncation based on characters is bad practice for
> human readable text. A sentence is composed of words, not characters.
> Truncating a sentence mid-word isn't a typographical practice that I
> particularly want to encourage.
I like the idea too, since I've run into a lot of situations where
some more convention here would make a decision much easier to make.
However, it isn't clear what exactly should be better defined and I
think the first step to a serious proposal would be to figure that
out.
The only example that
