Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Rhesa Rozendaal <rh...@xs4all.nl> [2005-10-18 02:25]:
> Luke Kanies wrote:
> >I just want to point out this software, since it seems so topical:
> >
> >http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/
> 
> If that can handle things like: "Foto's en agenda's" properly,
> then it's smarter than Word. That source of hate turns those
> apostrophes into single-quotes, as if "s en agenda" is a
> paraphrase.

With

    Foto's en agenda's

it produces

    Foto&#8217;s en agenda&#8217;s

so it passes that test. In fact, with

    'Foto's en agenda's'

I get

    &#8216;Foto&#8217;s en agenda&#8217;s&#8217;

so yeah, it’s smarter than Word. At least that’s what I get using
the original Perl version of SmartyPants:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/

It’s from the same author who designed Markdown and wrote the
original implementation. The online converter for Markdown has a
“Filter” option that runs only SmartyPants over the given text,
so you can check for yourself what it does with any given input:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus

(Which is what I used to do the above tests.)

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>