Enable SmartyPants for Better Typography

[killercup]

Enables transforming things like "--" to "–" and "we'll" to "we’ll".

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[killercup]

I noticed that http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/24/Rust-Once-Run-Everywhere.html could benefit from some typographic enhancements. This just adds the "smarty pants" extension to Redcarpet (as seen in the Jekyll documentation).

[steveklabnik]

I'm afraid of things like this due to lifetimes: they shouldn't be curly. Do you know how this interacts with this?

[killercup]

I would be surprised if this did anything to text in back ticks or code blocks. I'll try it locally and see what happens, though.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Steve Klabnik [email protected]
wrote:

I'm afraid of things like this due to lifetimes: they shouldn't be curly. Do you know how this interacts with this?

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[killercup]

@steveklabnik, lifetimes render as expected, 'a stays 'a. SmartyPants ignores inline code and code blocks.

[steveklabnik]

Seems fine then, thank you!