Typography with MT
The plugin SmartyPants is a typographic plugin for Movable Type which can translate some plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities:
SmartyPants can perform the following transformations:
- Straight quotes (
"and') into “curly” quote HTML entities- Backticks-style quotes (
``like this'') into “curly” quote HTML entities- Dashes (“
--” and “---”) into en- and em-dash entities- Three consecutive dots (“
...”) into an ellipsis entity
This plugin can be used in combination with MT-Textile plugin (Textile is Dean Allen’s “humane web text generator”).
Maybe I will find time to port those plugins to french typography in order to use them on this weblog.
Posted by Jean-Philippe on April 03, 2003 at 07:30 PM 39 Comments, 4712 TrackBacks
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