Bug#649736: ITP: python-smartypants -- a smart-quotes plugin for pyblosxom

["Julien Danjou" <julien.danjou@enovance.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>

* Package name    : python-smartypants
  Version         : 1.6.0.3
  Upstream Author : Chad Miller
* URL             : http://web.chad.org/projects/smartypants.py/
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : a smart-quotes plugin for pyblosxom

It can perform the following transformations:

* Straight quotes ( " and ' ) into "curly" quote HTML entities
* Backticks-style quotes (``like this'') into "curly" quote HTML entities
* Dashes (-- and ---) into en- and em-dash entities
* Three consecutive dots (... or . . .) into an ellipsis entity

This means you can write, edit, and save your posts using plain old ASCII
straight quotes, plain dashes, and plain dots, but your published posts (and
final HTML output) will appear with smart quotes, em-dashes, and proper
ellipses.

SmartyPants does not modify characters within <pre>, <code>, <kbd>, <math>
or <script> tag blocks. Typically, these tags are used to display text where
smart quotes and other "smart punctuation" would not be appropriate, such as
source code or example markup.