TypoHero

TypoHero has come to enhance your typography. There are no options, there is no documentation. He knows what you need.

require 'typohero'
TypoHero.enhance('Some text...')
TypoHero.truncate('Long text with tags...', max_words_or_separator)
TypoHero.strip_tags('Text with tags...')

Features

  • TypoHero.enhance - Typography enhancer
    • Special character treatment for quotes, dashes and ellipsis
    • Widon't with Unicode non-breaking space
    • Skips special tags like <script>
    • Styling enhancements
    • Captial letters are wrapped in <span class="caps">
    • Initial quotes are wrapped in <span class="quo">
    • Ampersands are wrapped in <span class="amp">
    • Ordinals are wrapped in <span class="ord">
    • Hyphenated words are wrapped in <span class="nobr">
    • LaTeX support
    • Some LaTeX commands are replaced by their Unicode counterpart
    • Mathjax code is skipped
  • TypoHero.truncate - Truncate which ensures that all tags are closed correctly
    • Supports maximum number of words and/or separator String/Regexp
  • TypoHero.strip_tags - Strip tags from content, keep only text
  • All methods keeps the string html_safe?

Why?

There is already SmartyPants, RubyPants, Typogruby, Typogrify, Fast-Aleck? So why?!

  • It is simpler, faster and more reliable than the others
  • More features
  • And I like regular expressions :)

But why not improve the existing libraries?

  • SmartyPants is Perl
  • RubyPants is good but too much of a direct Perl port
  • Typogruby has nice features but the implementation seems more like a hack
  • Typogrify is Python
  • Fast-Aleck is C, but I don't want to use C since Ruby is already a perfect text processing language!

Similar libraries

Smartypants (Perl), Typogrify (Python), Typography-Helper (Ruby), RubyPants (Ruby), Tyogruby (Ruby), Typography (Ruby), Typographer (Ruby), Typogrify (Ruby), Typogrowth (Ruby), Typogr.js (Javascript), Richtypo.js (Javascript), List of javascript typography libraries ...

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel Mendler

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