typogrify: Django template filters to make web typography easier

This application provides a set of custom filters for the Django template system which automatically apply various transformations to plain text in order to yield typographically-improved HTML.

Requirements

typogrify is designed to work with Django, and so requires a functioning installation of Django 0.96 or later.

• Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/

Installation

1. checkout the project into a folder called typogrify on your python path:

   git clone git@github.com:chrisdrackett/django-typogrify.git typogrify

2. Add 'typogrify' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

Included filters

amp

Wraps ampersands in HTML with <span class="amp"></span> so they can be styled with CSS. Ampersands are also normalized to &. Requires ampersands to have whitespace or an   on both sides. Will not change any ampersand which has already been wrapped in this fashion.

caps

Wraps multiple capital letters in <span class="caps"></span> so they can be styled with CSS.

initial_quotes

Wraps initial quotes in <span class="dquo"></span> for double quotes or <span class="quo"></span> for single quotes. Works inside these block elements:

• h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
• p
• li
• dt
• dd

Also accounts for potential opening inline elements: a, em, strong, span, b, i.

smartypants

• Straight quotes ( " and ' ) into “curly” quote HTML entities (‘ | ’ | “ | ”)
• Backticks-style quotes (``like this'') into “curly” quote HTML entities (‘ | ’ | “ | ”)
• Dashes (“--” and “---”) into n-dash and m-dash entities (– | —)
• Three consecutive dots (“...”) into an ellipsis entity (…)

widont

Based on Shaun Inman's PHP utility of the same name, replaces the space between the last two words in a string with   to avoid a final line of text with only one word.

Works inside these block elements:

• h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
• p
• li
• dt
• dd

Also accounts for potential closing inline elements: a, em, strong, span, b, i.

titlecase

http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/title_case

number_suffix

wraps number suffix's in <span class="ord"></span> so they can be styled.

fuzzydate

(uses code from http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1347/)

Returns the date in a more human readable format:

• Today
• Yesterday
• 4 days ago
• 3 weeks ago
• in 3 years
• etc.

typogrify

Applies all of the following filters, in order:

• force_unicode (from django.utils.encoding)
• amp
• widont
• smartypants
• caps
• initial_quotes

Examples

Apply all django-typogrify filters to template output:

{% load typogrify_tags %}
{{ blog_post.contents|typogrify }}