Is it possible for movable type to automatically generate a title for the post by taking the first 20 letters of the entry?

I would like this to happen whenever I decide to not put a title for my entry.

Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance.

If you just are worried about the outputted text getting a title, yes, that is do-able; but if you actually want to save a title in the database when there isn't one there, that might be a bit harder.

The IfEmpty plugin would probably do this best...

So that will give you 20 characters of the Body if your title is empty; and then print the title if its not empty.

Hope that helps,
Kristine