smartypants ☆

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Description:
Typography prettifier

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: text-processing typography formatting markdown cli

Install: brew install smartypants

About:
Smartypants is a text processing tool that converts ASCII punctuation characters into their corresponding typographically correct entities. It handles smart quotes, em-dashes, ellipses, and other typographic niceties automatically. This improves the visual quality and semantic correctness of web content and documents.

Key Features:

Automatic conversion of straight quotes to smart quotes
Translates ASCII dashes and ellipses to typographic equivalents
Preserves code blocks and HTML tags from processing
Configurable behavior for different output formats

Use Cases:

Converting blog posts and web content to proper typography
Processing Markdown files for publication
Cleaning up imported text from plain text editors
Preparing documentation with professional typography

Alternatives:

Pandoc – More comprehensive document converter with smart typography as one feature
Python smartypants library – Python implementation of the same algorithm for web applications

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