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Enhancing the typography on your site


!RubyPants (a Ruby port of !SmartyPants) can be used to improve the typography of a HTML page by replacing "--" with proper em dashes, replacing "..." with proper ellipsises, converting straight quotation marks into proper curly quotation marks, and more.

To use this filter with nanoc, add filter :rubypants to the compilation block in the Rules file, like this:



compile '/some/item/' do
  filter :rubypants
end



Note that some filters provide this functionality out of the box. At least Textile(RedCloth) is known to do so. Markdown(RDiscount) does not. (Here is a List of Built-in Filters.)