Fresh Plugin for Ebook Unicode Support

This repo contains plugins for the Fresh editor.

This plugin that supports use of Unicode Typography used in EPUB book productions. This plugin was created to support my projects for Standard Ebooks.

URL to import as Fresh Package: https://github.com/mandolyte/ebooks-fresh-plugin

To Do

[x] Change italic element i to em for a string

Unicode Helpers for Ebooks

This plugin adds a number of commands to support needed Unicode characters used in ebook typography. These are:

• Identify Unicode character at cursor
• Dashes and Quotes
  • Insert Em-Dash
  • Insert En-Dash
  • Insert left single quote
  • Insert right single quote
  • Insert left double quote
  • Insert right double quote
  • Insert vertical ellipsis
• String Transformations
  • Double quote selection
  • Single quote selection
  • Titlecase (per Chicago Manual of Style)
  • Titlecase per Standard Ebooks (SE)
  • Convert an <i> element to an <em> element.
    • So this: <i>This is emphasized!</i> becomes...
    • This: <em>This is emphasized!</em>
    • Shows status error if string at cursor is an <i> element (no attributes)
    • Shows status error if close element cannot be found (ie, </i> for the opening <i>)
    • Note: this function written to be easily re-used for other matched element conversions
• Miscellaneous
  • Insert Split Marker: This inserts the split marker at the cursor position <!--se:split-->

Note! The SE Titlecase action requires that the SE Tooling be installed and on the path. Essentially, it runs se titlecase "my book title".

Test String for Unicode Character Identification

This string below was generated by Gemini to provide easy testing.

“ʻHush⁠—⁠’ she whispered… ⸺ it was 1914–1918 ‒ precisely ‑42 and −10. ‘Indeed,’ she said.”

Table of Characters Supported

Character	Hex Code	Description	Role in Nonsense Text
“	\u201C	Left Double Quote	Opening of the whole string.
ʻ	\u02BB	Turned Comma	Placed at the start of "Hush".
⁠	\u2060	Word Joiner	Hugging the em-dash (⁠—⁠).
—	\u2014	Em-dash	Between "Hush" and the quote.
’	\u2019	Right Single Quote	Closing quote after "Hush".
…	\u2026	Ellipsis	After "whispered".
⋮	\u22EE	Vertical Ellipsis	N/A
⸻	\u2E3A	Two-Em-Dash	Between the ellipsis and "it was".
–	\u2013	En-dash	In the date range "1914–1918".
‒	\u2012	Figure Dash	Before "precisely".
‑	\u2011	Non-Breaking Hyphen	Before "42".
−	\u2212	Minus Sign	Before "10".
** **	\u200A	Hair Space	Between the period and the next quote (. ‘).
‘	\u2018	Left Single Quote	Opening "Indeed".
”	\u201D	Right Double Quote	Closing the whole string.