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Clean up extra spaces and line breaks.
Add support for removing multiple spaces and line breaks. Try cleaning this: http://bit.ly/92aJmu
21 votesunder review ·
AdminBen Zanin
(Admin, cleantext) responded
This is a very generally worded request. Can anyone come up with a slightly more specific description of the requested feature? How can linebreaks be “cleaned up” when the source text doesn’t obey a convention like format-flowed, for example?
This feature request may need to be broken up into multiple more specific points. Feedback is welcome and very much appreciated!
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20 votesunder review ·AdminBen Zanin
(Admin, cleantext) responded
This is an excellent suggestion, but it’s surprisingly difficult to cover the general case in practice.
When we tackle this feature, it will likely involve a series of iterative refinements, and each improvement will be involve a good quantity of blood, sweat, tears and research.
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16 votes
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11 votes
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eliminate doubled spaces after periods.
Correct bad habits for those who learned to type on old-school typewriters. Proportional fonts need only one space after a period.
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8 votesplanned ·AdminBen Zanin
(Admin, cleantext) responded
Working on this. No ETA yet.
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6 votesstarted ·AdminBen Zanin
(Admin, cleantext) responded
I’ll look into the feasability of this request. It’ll be easy to detect sequences of three period characters and perform a trivial replacement on each, but it’ll be harder to figure out when to not do so, such as when a line of periods is used to associate section titles with page numbers or the like.
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Add a switch for spacing around em-dashes
Add a togglable option on the page to enable/disable the insertion of spaces around em-dashes
5 votesunder review ·
AdminMekki MacAulay
(Admin, cleantext) responded
As it stands, the code currently replaces sequences of two dashes with a single em dash, context notwithstanding; so text like this:
Em dashes don’t take spaces either side—they’re like this.
…would be converted to..:
Em dashes don’t take spaces either side—they’re like this.
…but text like this..:
Em dashes don’t take spaces either side — they’re like this.
…gets turned into..:
Em dashes don’t take spaces either side — they’re like this.
This is arguably a good idea, since it will respect whatever convention – correct or not – the user decides to follow. However, it will also dramatically mangle odd situations like this:
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| I am boxed text! That’s like boxed wine, but cooler. |-——————————————————————————…which becomes this kind of horrorshow..:
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| I am boxed text! That’s like boxed wine, but cooler. |
———————————————————————————-…and pidgin ASCII Morse code..:
- .— .- …… more
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4 votes
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3 votes
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Typographic Ligatures
You might want to replace stylistic typographic ligatures by the letters that compound them. For instance fi would be replaced by fi, but the French ligature œ would not be replaced by oe, as it is part of words like sœur, œuf, unlike fils which doesn't need the ligature in plain text.
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1 vote
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Convert double hyphens to unspaced em dashes
Typists were taught to use two hyphens for an em dash, and a spaced hyphen for an en dash. A spaced em dash, as in your sample page, is a mistake. If there are spaces either side, whether one hyphen or two, make it en; unspaced double hyphens convert to em please.
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quote marks are bad
unfortunately the code places quote marks instead of the proper " marks in the code which breaks it.
1 vote
