NAME

Test::Text - A module for testing

VERSION

This document describes Test::Text version 0.0.3

SYNOPSIS

 use Test::Text;

 my $dir = "path/to/text_dir"; 
 my $data = "path/to/data_dir"; 

 my $tesxt = new Test::Text $text_dir, $dict_dir;

$tesxt = new Test::Text $text_dir, $dict_dir, $this_file, $that_file;

$testxt->check(); # spell-checks plain or markdown text in that dir or just passed

DESCRIPTION

This started as a spell and quality check for my novel, "Manuel the Magnificent Mechanical Man". Eventually, it can be used for checking any kind of markdown-formatted text, be it fiction or non-fiction. The first version included as documentation, the novel itself (check it out at Text::Hoborg::Manuel and also in the test directory the markdown source.

This module is a more general text-tester (that's a tesxter) which can be used on any external set of texts. This all came from the idea that writing is like software development, which I'm using throughout.

INTERFACE

new $dir [, @files]

Creates an object with the novel text inside. There is no default for the dir since it's supposed to be external. If an array of files is given, only those are used and not all the files inside the directory.

files

Returns the files it's using

dir

Returns the dir the source file is in. Since this is managed from the object, it is useful for other functions.

check

Check defined files

DEPENDENCIES

Test::Text requires Text::Hunspell and the en_US dictionnary for hunspell, which you can install with sudo apt-get install hunspell-en-us , but since I found no way of expressing this dependency within Makefile.PL, I have added it to the data dir, mainly

AUTHOR

JJ Merelo <jj@merelo.net>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2014, JJ Merelo <jj@merelo.net>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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