Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

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Dar­ing Fire­ball Projects: Smar­ty­Pants is a really cool plu­gin for Mov­able­Type, the CMS that dri­ves this site. The pur­pose of this plu­gin is to con­vert cer­tain stan­dard ASCII items — straight quotes for instance — into their typographically-correct HTML-encoded equiv­e­lents. It also works won­ders on dou­ble dashes (con­vert­ing them to proper em dashes), and turns triple dots into true ellip­sis — or is that ellipsi…

“I give this plu­gin a ‘10’ on a scale of 1 to 9″ said a super­flu­ous ban­ter reader who wishes to remain anony­mous (for obvi­ous reasons…).

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, December 20th, 2002.

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