I just installed Brad Choate’s Textile plug-in and John Gruber’s Smartypants. Let’s see if I can give them a workout:
First, I should be able to do blockquoting. I’m gonna repeat to get a critical mass. I’m gonna repeat to get a critical mass. I’m gonna repeat to get a critical mass. I’m gonna repeat to get a critical mass. I’m gonna repeat to get a critical mass.
It’s also supposed to do stuff like convert underscores to italics. And asterisks to boldface.
Acronyms get formatted, which is good, ‘cause I use a lot of TLA (Three Letter Acronyms).
I can do ™ and © and all that other IP stuff. (That’ll keep the lawyers happy.)
Ellipses . . . good . . . I use lots of those—and real en-dashes and em-dashes—-and quotes! No more ugly “straight” quotes, just curvacious (sp?) curly quotes.
Hmm. Let’s see what happens here . . .
Update: A few more experiments — checking to see how spaces around the en-dash get handled…and badly formed ellipses.. .
Updated update: So it’s not correcting the ellipses (too bad), it’s preserving the spaces around the en-dash (bad too), and there also seems to be a problem with the em-dash (above). Hmm. Hmm. A bit disappointing. Maybe I need to tinker with some of the configs.
Posted by mgk at June 16, 2003 10:44 PMI think your problem with en-dashes is that they're not enabled in the default SmaryPants/Textile integration. By default, the only dash conversion SmartyPants does is two-dashes to an em-dash. Three-dashes to an en-dash is an option.
As for the spaces around the dashes, that's because some people *want* spaces around dashes. If you don't want them, you simply need to write your weblog entries without them.
Hope this helps.
Posted by: John Gruber at June 17, 2003 05:40 PM | Link to CommentThanks very much John, that does answer the questions.
Personally, I'd love to see an option that would take all badly formed ellipses, dashes, etc. and standardize them in a way presribed by the user. I imagine there are various ways to accomplish that, but it'd be _very_ convenient to have the functionality built right into tools like Smartypants.
Personally, I'd love to see an option that would take all badly formed ellipses, dashes, etc. and standardize them in a way presribed by the user. I imagine there are various ways to accomplish that, but it'd be _very_ convenient to have the functionality built right into tools like Smartypants.
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