markdown and smart quotes

  • dozer

    (@dozer)


    21 years, 7 months ago

    When I type in this in markdown format: [more legal info here](http://www.coolthaihouse.com/artownership.htm “land ownership”) the straight quotes get modified into curly quotes and the title clause isn’t correct. I tried using the curly quotes also, but then markdown doesn’t seem to recognize the quotes.
    what is the best solution for this?
    thanks,
    dozer

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  • Thread Starter dozer

    (@dozer)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    just an added note to the above. it seems like wp is converting the straight quotes into curly quotes. Is there a way to stop WP from doing this conversion?

    midori

    (@midori)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    Isn’t it done by one of the texturise plugin ?

    Thread Starter dozer

    (@dozer)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t think so as I have them turned off.

    Anonymous

    21 years, 7 months ago

    Did you try the latest version of PHP Markdown? The version that comes with WordPress 1.2 is very outdated now. This particular bug has been solved (in beta 5 if I remember well) by setting Markdown’s filter priority to something better.
    http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
    — Michel Fortin

    Thread Starter dozer

    (@dozer)

    21 years, 7 months ago

    Yes, that was the problem. Thanks Michel. I’m going to suggest that the WP folks include a version of markdown in the next release which doesn’t suck. 🙂

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