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Old 08-04-2014, 05:50 PM   #14
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Extremelly good plugin really, really useful.

Nevertheless some possible issues or suggestions.

Test the following text about smarten punctuation mark II:

Code:
  <p>''Tis is a dialogue' John said.</p>

  <p>''Whatever'' is not a dialogue.</p>
With an exception file which includes Tis.

If I tick that option I get:
Code:
  <p>‘’Tis is a dialogue’ John said.</p>

  <p>‘’Whatever’’ is not a dialogue.</p>
Why has the apostrophe before Whatever been converted to ’ ? (I can assure that Whatever is not in the exception file, in fact I've uploaded it).
And why has not the double apostrophe after Whatever been converted to a curly ” ?

But if I untick that option I get:
Code:
  <p>‘‘Tis is a dialogue’ John said.</p>

  <p>‘‘Whatever’’ is not a dialogue.</p>
Why duplicated single apostrophes are not collapsed into double ones?


And now a suggestion:

'90s is a decade contraction and it needs a right curly quote.
'90 is a number in a dialogue', John said, 'so it needs a left curly one.'

As coding an automate substitution rule for ' before numbers can be really hard, I propose asking the user each time an occurrence happens.



OTOH about the tag substitution feature:
  • It only works on the current file, not in all text files. Why?
  • I also vote for adding more options in addition to em & strong. Could you leave it open so any tag could be written?
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File Type: txt apos_exceptions.txt (138 Bytes, 1155 views)

Last edited by arspr; 08-04-2014 at 05:52 PM. Reason: Uploading the exception file.
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