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Update curly apostrophes in documentation #1419
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Thanks for the update! Jekyll doesn't automatically converts these. 😃 |
Update curly apostrophes in documentation
Wait, am I missing something? What is the purpose of these special apostrophes? |
Gotta keep the docs classy. 😃 On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Parker Moore notifications@github.comwrote:
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Hemingway would be proud? |
This is not true. Jekyll’s current markdown engine does convert these. Compare:
It works in posts. I don’t know why it doesn’t work everywhere else.
They are not special. The curly one is the right typographic form of the apostrophe. The doc sources was already full of curly apostrophes before my update, look at the source of Writing posts. |
Jekyll only hands it off to the Markdown/Textile engine in use. Jekyll On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Anatol Broder notifications@github.comwrote:
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@mattr- Sorry for the ambiguous parlance, I mean the markdown engine that is used on Jekyll’s official site. It’s not set in config.yml, so it must be Jekyll’s default Maruku transforms wrong apostrophes, wrong quotes and wrong dashes
The result is:
This is pretty nice, at least for English writers. If I set Is the little typographical helper something Jekyll wants to promote as a feature? Should anybody mention it in the documentation? New ticket? |
I'm not really interested in promoting this for several reasons: - there are bugs in maruku that require people to replace it with another engine, which leads to the next point. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Anatol Broder notifications@github.com
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Thank you for clarification. |
The typographic conventions are helpful for writing prose, but I have had a hell of a time trying to make sure |
Sure, such transformations don’t make sense inside of |
Jekyll doesn’t always transform straight apostrophes into curly ones. The transformation seems to work in posts, but not always in pages. It’s more reliable to type the curly apostrophes by hand.