Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator
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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.
Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)
This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.
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Hmm, I thought this was an easy fix, but I just reverted the changes because there are some potential complications and back-compat issues. I think we may have to treat all HTML text as if it were "Perchance item text" for now - at least until an overhaul/V2.
The crux of the complication is that in Perchance, text can be affected other text around it - like
{a}, so my original solution of "just handle bracket escaping, and not \t, \n, etc." has some subtle edge cases where behavior is different than what you might expect.So then I thought, okay, I'll just do this for text nodes that don't contain any square/curly blocks. I.e. just remove the backslashes from escaped curly/square brackets, and don't process stuff like
\t. But then we have potentially counter-intuitive discontinuity in behavior. I.e. you take away a square block from some text in the HTML, and you get a bunch of other thing changing (e.g. newlines in a pre element) as a result.So I think this needs some more thought... I've added to perchance.org/known-bugs for now - if you have any thoughts please let me know. Thanks!
Okay understood. Thanks for looking into this for me 👍