Improve Typography

Improves typography (quotes, hyphens, etc.) of a given string. Works well with I18n.

Easy to extend by the way of locale files and processors. Pull requests are welcome!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'improve_typography'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install improve_typography

Usage

ImproveTypography::Base.call("'so it isn't authorless'") # => "‘so it isn’t authorless’"

Only text inside XHTML tags is corrected (quotes around attributes etc. are preserved).

Locale

The replacements are locale-specific (corresponding to I18n.locale), with a fallback to default :en.

Locale can be also provided locally as:

ImproveTypography::Base.call("'so it isn't authorless'", locale: :cs)

Extending locales

There are two options how to provide locale-specific replacements:

Via locale files (preferred)

Create or override locale files in your application. See the locale files in the locales folder.

Via custom class

For more complex replacements, where the above method is not sufficient, it is possible to create locale-specific classes and override default behavior. For example:

module ImproveTypography
  module Processors
    module CS # locale name in upcase
      class SingleQuotes < Processor
        def call
          # custom behavior
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

Configuration

You can configure applied processors (and their order).

Globally

ImproveTypography.configure do |config|
  processors = [ImproveTypography::Processors::Ellipsis]
end

Locally

ImproveTypography::Base.call("'so it isn't authorless'", processors: [ImproveTypography::Processors::Ellipsis])

Available processors

• Apostrophe
• DoubleQuotes
• Ellipsis
• EmDash
• EnDash
• MultiplySign
• Nbsp
• Numbers
• SingleQuotes
• Units
• WordLineSeparator

Supported locales

• :en (Int. English)
• :cs (Czech)

Resources and inspiration

• SmartyPants
• Truty
• Typogruby

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tomasc/improve_typography.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.