smartypants mit Homebrew, apk, apt installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• smartypants

Projektgeschichte

The official project page records SmartyPants 1.0 as released on November 13, 2002. It began as a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type and later supported Blosxom, BBEdit, and Unix-style command-line use.

Adoptionsgeschichte

SmartyPants became useful wherever plain text was converted to web output. The official history added Blosxom, BBEdit, command-line use, and automatic integration with Markdown in Movable Type; the supplied package metadata shows later packaging in Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, and Ubuntu variants.

Wie es verwendet wird

The tool converts straight quotes, backtick quote notation, dash sequences, and three dots into smart quote, dash, and ellipsis HTML entities while avoiding code-like HTML blocks such as `pre`, `code`, `kbd`, and `script`.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care because SmartyPants is a classic tiny text filter: old Perl, web-publishing conventions, command-line use, and compatibility behavior all matter more than churn. It is also historically adjacent to Markdown, which makes it familiar to documentation and static-site toolchains.

Zeitleiste

• 2002: SmartyPants 1.0 initial release.
• 2003: Version 1.2 became a combination plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, BBEdit, and standalone command-line use.
• 2004: Version 1.5 added automatic Markdown integration for Movable Type.
• 2004: Version 1.5.1 was published as the downloadable release on the official page.

Related projects

• The official page discusses Movable Type, Blosxom, BBEdit, MT-Textile, Textile, and Markdown integration.

Quellen

• https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/: official description, version history, supported tools, command-line note, and release dates.
• input source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew, Alpine, Debian, and Ubuntu package names.