Text::Typography - Markup ASCII text with correct typography for HTML

       Thomas Sibley created this module using  the  code  from  the  SmartyPants  CMS  plugin  by  John  Gruber
       (<http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/>).

           Copyright (c) 2003 John Gruber
           (http://daringfireball.net/)
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perl v5.36.0                                       2022-10-13                              Text::Typography(3pm)

       This module is a thin wrapper for John Gruber's SmartyPants plugin for various CMSs.

       SmartyPants is a web publishing utility that 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 entity

       SmartyPants  does  not  modify  characters within "<pre>", "<code>", "<kbd>", "<script>", or "<math>" tag
       blocks.  Typically, these tags are used to display text where smart quotes and other "smart  punctuation"
       would not be appropriate, such as source code or example markup.

   typography($text[,$attributes])
       Returns a string marked up with the proper HTML entities for proper typography.

       For fine grain control over what gets converted, use the $attributes option.  The default value is 3.

       The following numeric values set a group of options:

           0 : do nothing
           1 : set all
           2 : set all, using old school en- and em- dash shortcuts (-- and ---)
           3 : set all, using inverted old school en- and em- dash shortcuts (--- and --)

       For even finer control, specify a string of one or more of the following characters:

           q : quotes
           b : backtick quotes (``double'' only)
           B : backtick quotes (``double'' and `single')
           d : dashes
           D : old school dashes
           i : inverted old school dashes
           e : ellipses
           w : convert &quot; entities to " for Dreamweaver users

   BackslashEscapes
       If  you  need  to  use  literal  straight  quotes (or plain hyphens and periods), SmartyPants accepts the
       following backslash escape sequences to force non-smart punctuation.  It  does  so  by  transforming  the
       escape sequence into a decimal-encoded HTML entity:

                     Escape  Value  Character
                     ------  -----  ---------
                       \\    &#92;    \
                       \"    &#34;    "
                       \'    &#39;    '
                       \.    &#46;    .
                       \-    &#45;    -
                       \`    &#96;    `

       This  is  useful,  for example, when you want to use straight quotes as foot and inch marks: 6'2" tall; a
       17" iMac.

   AlgorithmicShortcomings
       One situation in which quotes will get curled the wrong way is when apostrophes are used at the start  of
       leading contractions. For example:

           'Twas the night before Christmas.

       In  the  case  above,  SmartyPants will turn the apostrophe into an opening single-quote, when in fact it
       should be a closing one. I don't think this problem can be solved in  the  general  case  --  every  word
       processor  I've tried gets this wrong as well. In such cases, it's best to use the proper HTML entity for
       closing single-quotes ("&#8217;") by hand.

       Text::Typography - Markup ASCII text with correct typography for HTML

           use Text::Typography qw(typography);

           print typography($text);