Smartypants

[philsturgeon]

This is probably another package, but in the same vein as the potential markua package, it would be good to get Smartypants involved.

This would help CommonMark projects be usable for printed books and whatnot, turning standard quotes into curly quotes and other similar bits.

[philsturgeon]

Although if #97 happens I don't know if LaTeX/Pandoc will handle that stuff magically. Either way, would be a nice one.

[cebe]

for LaTeX these should be converted not to the unicode characters but LaTeX specific syntax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Typewriters_and_early_computers

[philsturgeon]

Cool. Priority goes down the list, meaning I won’t bother to do it. :D

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for LaTeX these should be converted not to the unicode characters but LaTeX specific syntax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Typewriters_and_early_computers

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[cebe]

you need this more than me right now, so we'll see ;)

[philsturgeon]

I actually don’t need it at all if LaTeX does that stuff. Just a feature suggestion now.

[cebe]

not sure how this works in english, but for german quotes you need special sytnax in LaTeX. Will check it out.

[philsturgeon]

Oh I see, so I will need it. I just need to make sure it outputs to either HTML entities or LaTeX special syntax.

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not sure how this works in english, but for german quotes you need special sytnax in LaTeX. Will check it out.

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[cebe]

exactly

[cebe]

german wikipedia has more details about the characters to be used: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anf%C3%BChrungszeichen#Kodierung

[colinodell]

Smartypants is a great idea, but I do think it should be its own separate package. You might be able to implement it as an Inline Processor (which iterates over Inlines, performing modifications to them). If not then we could look at expanding the "Extension API" to make these types of addons easier to implement.

[cebe]

One important part is that it should not be applied to code blocks and also inline code. Will check out the API and let you know if there are limitations.