Description
What is the true purpose of the --bare option? Tidy help says it's to strip out smart quotes and other em dashes. More information under help-option
indicates it's for cleaning up MSWord documents.
These two descriptions of the option don't seem the same:
tidy --help
-bare, -b strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc.
tidy -help-option bare
This option specifies if Tidy should strip Microsoft specific HTML from Word
2000 documents, and output spaces rather than non-breaking spaces where they
exist in the input.
After briefly reading the documentation at https://api.html-tidy.org/tidy/quickref_5.6.0.html I thought bare could be used to clean up MSWord documents but was surprised when it substituted hyphens for em-dashes.
Side note: There is also a word-2000 option which is for cleaning MSWord documents. This seems tailored for MSWord WebPage exports, opposed to MSWord WebPage filtered exports.
Related issues:
#885