SmartyPants
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SmartyPants is a web-publishing tool to transform plain ASCII characters into niceties like "curly" quotes and proper ellipsis, developed by John Gruber. It takes the form of a plugin for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit, though it has been reimplimented a number of times, usually by the same person who reimpliments Markdown, another tool by Grubber, with which it is often used.
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SmartyPants only has a few elements:
- "Smart" quotes, where the quote characters curve, are created from normal straight quote characters
- En- and em-dashes are created from two and three concecutive dash characters
- Three periods are turned into an ellipsis entity