Short title template function

[TreeFrogBandit]

Hi everyone, sorry if this has already been answered. I have quite a lot of academic titles in my library and they have really long titles. I want to shorten the titles so they will fit on the covers that I generate for using the generate cover plugin.

I can use {title:shorten(50,,0)} to only give me the first 50 characters of each title, but it's not very aesthetically pleasing - because it cuts off the end of words most of the time.

Is there a function I can use to return the first n words of a title (based on separation by spaces) or automatically returns everything before the colon that nearly always sneaks into academic titles?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by TreeFrogBandit

Is there a function I can use to return the first n words of a title (based on separation by spaces)

This.

{title:sublist(0,4, )}

Note that the spaces are significant.

or automatically returns everything before the colon that nearly always sneaks into academic titles?

This.

{title:sublist(0,1,:)}

You can also combine the two, taking the first N words of the title before a colon. N == 4 in this example.

{title:'sublist(sublist($, 0, 1, ':'), 0, 4, ' ')'}

[TreeFrogBandit]

Excellent! Thanks