github.com/patrickbucher/typography

Typography

This is a module that replaces some characters and sequences of characters often to be seen in text files with their typographycally correct counterparts. Right now it's replacing:

• three dots (...) with an ellipsis (…)
• two dashes (--) with an ndash (–)
• three dashes (---) with an mdash (—)
• double quotes ("") with nice double quotes
• single quotes ('') with nice single quotes
• single quotes within words (don't) with an apostrophe (don’t)

Quote Styles

Four quote styles (typography.QuoteStyle) are supported:

• English style: “” (double) and ‘’ (single)
  • typography.QuoteStyle.English
• German style: „“ (double) and ‚‘ (single)
  • typography.QuoteStyle.German
• Guillemets: «» (double) and ‹› (single)
  • typography.QuoteStyle.Guillemets
• Reverse Guillemets: »« (double) and ›‹ (single)
  • typography.QuoteStyle.ReverseGuillemets

Client

I implemented a client that takes text from os.Stdin, beautifies it, and writes it to os.Stdout. It can be found in the cmd folder (beautify.go). It supports the quote styles mentioned above using the flags -e (English style), -d (German style), -g (Guillemets) and -r (reverse Guillemets).