SmartyPants Easily translate plain ASCII punctuation characters into smart typographic punctuation HTML entities
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Easily translate plain ASCII punctuation characters into smart typographic punctuation HTML entities SmartyPants is a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities.SmartyPants can perform the following transformations:· Straight quotes ( " and ' ) into "curly" quote HTML entities· Backticks-style quotes (``like this'') into "curly" quote HTML entities· Dashes ("--" and "---") into en- and em-dash entities· Three consecutive dots ("...") into an ellipsis entityThis means you can write, edit, and save your posts using plain old ASCII straight quotes, plain dashes, and plain dots, but your published posts (and final HTML output) will appear with smart quotes, em-dashes, and proper ellipses.SmartyPants is a combination plug-in: a single plug-in file that will work with Movable Type, BBEdit, and Blosxom. SmartyPants can also be used from a Unix-style command-line.Requirements:· Movable Type: 2.5 or later (including Movable Type 3.0)· Blosxom: 2.0 or later· BBEdit: 5.1 or later· Perl: 5.005 or later

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