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Install smartypants with Homebrew, apk, apt

Typography prettifier. Version 1.5.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install python3-smartypants.

Install commandSecurity notes

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install smartypants

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add smartypants

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · smartypants · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install python3-smartypants

Debian stable package indexes · python3-smartypants · source: deb.debian.org

overview

Package summary

Typography prettifier

Commands and aliases

  • smartypants

history

Project history and usage

SmartyPants is John Gruber's typography filter for turning plain ASCII punctuation into typographic HTML entities. In package-manager culture it is a small but durable text-processing command, tied to early weblog tooling and the same Daring Fireball ecosystem that produced Markdown.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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`.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

  • 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.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
smartypantsexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.5.1
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:smartypants
Version1.5.1
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

python3-smartypants 2.0.0-4

smart-quotes plugin for pyblosxom (Python 3 version)

https://github.com/justinmayer/smartypants.py

sudo apt install python3-smartypants
  • Section: python
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: smartypants
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Smartypants
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: python3-smartypants from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Ubuntu apt95%

python3-smartypants 2.0.0-3

smart-quotes plugin for pyblosxom (Python 3 version)

http://web.chad.org/projects/smartypants.py/

sudo apt install python3-smartypants
  • Section: universe/python
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: smartypants
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Smartypants
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-smartypants from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

smartypants 2.0.1-r6

Translate plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities

https://github.com/leohemsted/smartypants.py

sudo apk add smartypants
  • License: BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: smartypants
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Smartypants
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: smartypants from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

smartypants-doc 2.0.1-r6

Translate plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities (documentation)

https://github.com/leohemsted/smartypants.py

sudo apk add smartypants-doc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: smartypants
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Smartypants
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: smartypants-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

smartypants-pyc 2.0.1-r6

Precompiled Python bytecode for smartypants

https://github.com/leohemsted/smartypants.py

sudo apk add smartypants-pyc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: smartypants
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Smartypants
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: smartypants-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

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