Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 106, Issue 4

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar]

On Saturday 14 January 2012 01:15 AM, John Laudun wrote:

>> The only problem as I see it is that three dashes produce a long

>> dash and a hyphen rather than an em-dash, although two dashes seem

>> to work well. But investigating that will have to wait for the

>> morrow!

>

> I'm afraid you are confusing two different replies. SmartyPants looks

> for two hyphens (or tee dashes) and turns them into an em dash. The

> three dashes is for another implementation of Markdown. (There are a

> variety of "flavors" or "distros" or "forks" or whatever of it.)

>

> john


I took a look at SmartyPants.pl and saw

# Configurable variables:
my $smartypants_attr = "1";  # Blosxom and BBEdit users: change this to 
configure.
                              #  1 =>  "--" for em-dashes; no en-dash 
support
                              #  2 =>  "---" for em-dashes; "--" for 
en-dashes
                              #  3 =>  "--" for em-dashes; "---" for 
en-dashes
                              #  See docs for more configuration options.

and changed it to:

# Configurable variables:
# Changed by Chandra on 14 Jan 2012 from 1 to 2
my $smartypants_attr = "2";  # Blosxom and BBEdit users: change this to 
configure.
                              #  1 =>  "--" for em-dashes; no en-dash 
support
                              #  2 =>  "---" for em-dashes; "--" for 
en-dashes
                              #  3 =>  "--" for em-dashes; "---" for 
en-dashes
                              #  See docs for more configuration options.

and the "old school" en- and em-dsahes wrok as expected. This has been a 
quick rather than an educated fix, but it works on the command line with 
pipes in Linux.

I am yet to explore what libtext-typography-perl does in this context.

Thanks.

Chandra