twaddle

Blocks

Twaddle blocks are demarcated by curly brackets:

This is plain text {this is a block}

A simple block just prints its contents as if the block weren’t there, they are not useful in isolation.

{this is a block}

produces

this is a block

Making blocks useful

Blocks are used to contain branching paths, and to demarcate which section of text should be affected by some functions.

Branching

Blocks can offer multiple paths for a Twaddle sentence, one of which will be chosen. The paths are separated by a pipe character |:

I like {cats|dogs}

prints either I like cats or I like dogs. By default the path is chosen at random for each block encountered, but synchronizers can be used to enforce relationships between the selection across multiple sets of paths. The branches are fully-functional Twaddle sentences, and all normal Twaddle features (lookups, queries, loops, labels, etc) can be used within them.

See the branching documentation for a fuller description.

Functions

Some functions operate on the text contained within a block. The hide function, for example, hides the text contained within the next block encountered:

[hide]{in}visible text

produces the output

visible text

Not all functions use blocks, see the functions page for more details.

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