Feature request: option to disable smart punctuation other than quotes

[kylebarbour]

kramdown currently has a simple mechanism to disable smart quotes (double and single):

$ kramdown --smart-quotes apos,apos,quot,quot file.txt

However, kramdown additionally generates ellipses (U+2026, …) from three periods (...). I think a number of folks like me who opt to preserve ASCII quotes would prefer to retain the three periods as well. This could be as simple as a --no-ellipsis option. I currently remove them with sed.

I think this addresses all the "smart" punctuation. The other main ones are en-dashes (U+2013, –) and em-dashes (U+2014, —), but those are easily avoided if desired by just typing a single hyphen, although I think it would be great to have an option to suppress those as well so one can use -- and --- as preferred.

Thanks for considering!

[gettalong]

kramdown currently converts ---, --, ..., << and >>. If we create a new option, it should probably be similar to --smart-quotes in that each "smart punctuation" conversion should be switchable.

Something along the lines --typographic-syms "{mdash: ---, ndash: --, hellip: ...}".

Would that make sense to you? And would this solve your problem?

[kylebarbour]

That makes sense to me and would solve my problem as well!

[gettalong]

Thanks for your contribution - I have implemented this and it will be in the next release.