SmartyPants.Net

A simplified .NET port of the typography prettifier framework SmartyPants.

Note however, that this library only works with plain text strings, and is seen as a solution that's independent of the medium — so it does not assume that HTML entities or tags are possible.

Strings like this:

He said, "'Quoted' words in a larger quote" -- or did he...?

Will be converted to:

He said, “‘Quoted’ words in a larger quote” — or did he…?

Usage

Create a SmartyPants object with your preferred settings, and call the Educate method to get an educated string:

// Default setting
new SmartyPants().Educate("Now -- and then");

// Non-default setting
new SmartyPants(SmartyPants.ATTR_SHORT_EM_DASH_LONG_EN).Educate("Now -- and then");

Settings

The following settings are available, ported from the original version of SmartyPants, which can be sent as an argument to the constructor:

• SmartyPants.ATTR_DO_NOTHING: No transformations are applied.
• SmartyPants.ATTR_EM_DASH: Use -- for em dashes; no en dash support. (Default)
• SmartyPants.ATTR_LONG_EM_DASH_SHORT_EN: Use --- for em dashes, -- for en dashes.
• SmartyPants.ATTR_SHORT_EM_DASH_LONG_EN: Use -- for em dashes, --- for en dashes.
• SmartyPants.ATTR_STUPEFY: Stupefy the string; that is, perform the reverse operation.

In addition, the constructor can be sent a string with custom flags that changes its behavior. The flags are as follows:

• q: quotes
• b: backtick quotes (``double'' only)
• B: backtick quotes (``double'' and `single')
• d: dashes
• D: old school dashes (same as ATTR_LONG_EM_DASH_SHORT_EN above)
• i: inverted old school dashes (same as ATTR_SHORT_EM_DASH_LONG_EN above)
• e: ellipses

For example, you could send the string "bDe" to only convert double backticks, convert dashes according to the "old school dashes" setting, and convert ellipses.

NuGet

https://www.nuget.org/packages/SmartyPantsNet

Authors

The port is created by Andy Graulund, based on Michel Fortin's PHP port, which is in turn based on the original SmartyPants by John Gruber.