smartypants

Overview ¶

Package smartypants translates basic ASCII punctuation into fancy Unicode punctuation according to some simple contextual rules:

Input           Output         Remarks

"hello world"   “hello world”  Left and right double quote
'hello world'   ‘hello world’  Left and right single quote
hello-world     hello–world    No change
hello - world   hello – world  N-dash
hello--world    hello—world    M-dash
hello -- world  hello — world  M-dash
...             …              Horizontal ellipsis
1/2 1/4 3/4     ½ ¼ ¾
(c) (r) (tm)    © ® ™

See http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/.

Extracted and modified from the Blackfriday Markdown processor available at http://github.com/russross/blackfriday. Copyright © 2011 Russ Ross <russ@russross.com>. Distributed under the Simplified BSD License. See file License for details.