This is a line of text that gets automatically made into a title. the text to the first newline is the title. if the text exceeds X-number of characte

rs, then the title is made from a substring.

responding to:

• http://scripting.com/2014/03/09/changeComingInRssFeed.html
• http://scripting.com/2014/03/12/thingsAreCrystallizing.html

what if i change my code for blog/article posts where a title only gets created if either the Textile or Markdown/MultiMarkdown heading-one syntax is used?

but what about RSS feeds?

what about my formatted blog display?

what about the smaller screen size when the intro text is not displayed?

i could just select or display only the first X-number of characters like i do with soupmode/kinglet when replying to a thread.

what's the point of this?

to provide more options regarding formatting or usage, maybe.

what's the hardship of creating a title?

beats me. i find titles helpful. to me, the title and the first sentence or two of the post should provide enough information to let the reader decide if the post is worth reading. it's a technique borrowed from the news writers. the reverse pyramid. the who, what when, where, why, and maybe how in the first sentence or the first paragraph. too many bloggers start a post with irrelevant info. i think the bloggers are trying to impress people with their fanciful writing when they should leave that crap out and just get to the point of the post. too much content exists on the web to waste time reading through too much flowery backstory at the start of a post.

obviously, microblog posts don't have titles, but all or part of the microblog post is stored in the title column in the database, and this info is used within the HTML title tag when displaying the post.

When I display an article stream, the first X-number of characters of the post along with the title are displayed on the home page.

So I'm already doing some substring parsing. I just need to expand this out a little.

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