Smart Quotes

Toxaris · 05-31-2010, 05:31 AM

Anyone familiar with Textile? It is a tool for textual format to XHMTL. It also convert quotes to smart quotes.

Two links which have an implementation are:

Textism

Textile

I find the first better, special for single quotes. I am thinking of a tool which converts XHTML to Textile format and then use it to convert backup to XHTML.

Now, if only I had time...

Apparently there are Ruby scripts for it available. Redcloth and Clothred. I also find a site to convert HTML to Textile format.

Jellby · 05-31-2010, 08:29 AM

I see 'em failin' too easily

Incorrectly oriented curly quotes are one of my pet peeves, and I always have to check them one by one (except when a single quote appears in the middle of a word, when I can safely assume it's an apostrophe).

pepak · 05-31-2010, 10:32 AM

In this post I describe a regular expression which, if a fairly low prerequisites are satisfied, yields quite good results with "smartification". Note: The regexp may fail even when the prerequisites are satisfied, but those cases are quite unusual.

05-31-2010, 05:31 AM	#1
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	Smart Quotes Anyone familiar with Textile? It is a tool for textual format to XHMTL. It also convert quotes to smart quotes. Two links which have an implementation are: Textism Textile I find the first better, special for single quotes. I am thinking of a tool which converts XHTML to Textile format and then use it to convert backup to XHTML. Now, if only I had time... Apparently there are Ruby scripts for it available. Redcloth and Clothred. I also find a site to convert HTML to Textile format. Last edited by Toxaris; 05-31-2010 at 07:22 AM.

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05-31-2010, 08:29 AM	#2
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,515 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	I see 'em failin' too easily Incorrectly oriented curly quotes are one of my pet peeves, and I always have to check them one by one (except when a single quote appears in the middle of a word, when I can safely assume it's an apostrophe).

05-31-2010, 10:32 AM	#3
pepak Guru Posts: 610 Karma: 4150 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T3, Kobo Libra H2O	In this post I describe a regular expression which, if a fairly low prerequisites are satisfied, yields quite good results with "smartification". Note: The regexp may fail even when the prerequisites are satisfied, but those cases are quite unusual.

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