Wordpress does a pretty good job, though it's written in PHP. Maybe one
could port that part of their code to Perl and turn it into a plugin.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Sherwood Botsford <sgbotsf...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I was hoping for a little bit more comprehensive solution. Even
> SmartyPants doesn't get it all correct.
>
> To do it right:
>
> A: Must be able to recognized when inside of PRE and CODE tags.
> B: Must not replace inside html tags. <div class=\&rdquot;foo\&ldquot;>
> is not a win.
> C: Ideally recognises prefix situations: E.g. 'Twas the night before
> Christmas, and "Throw 'nother log on the fire"
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests
>
>
> On 24 March 2016 at 03:53, Dami Laurent (PJ) <laurent.d...@justice.ge.ch>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess you could define a custom filter and then invoke the FILTER
>> directive wherever you need it.
>>
>> The body of the filter could use regular expressions on word boundaries
>> to replace quotes; something like this :
>>
>>
>>
>> sub replace_quotes {
>>
>> my $text = shift;
>>
>> $text =~ s/"\b/«/g;
>>
>> $text =~ s/\b"/»/g;
>>
>> return text;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>>
>>
>> Laurent Dami
>>
>>
>>
>> *De :* templates-boun...@template-toolkit.org [mailto:
>> templates-boun...@template-toolkit.org] *De la part de* Sherwood Botsford
>> *Envoyé :* mercredi 23 mars 2016 02:39
>> *À :* templates@template-toolkit.org
>> *Objet :* [Templates] Smart quotes?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone have a recipe for adding smartypants or equivalent script into the
>> ttree script so that the html output has straight quotes replaced with
>> typograper's quotes?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests
>>
>
>
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