What Textile Does
- Replace single and double primes (
' and ") used as quotation marks with HTML entities for opening and closing quotation marks (‘’ and “”) in readable text, while leaving untouched the primes required within HTML tags.
- Replace double hyphens (--) with an em-dash (—) entity.
- Replace single hyphens surrounded by spaces with an en-dash (–) entity.
- Replace triplets of periods (...) with an ellipsis (…) entity.
- Convert many nonstandard characters (ŸúߊπŒ) to browser-safe entities corresponding to keyboard input.
- Apply block- and phrase-level structural tags automatically and at the discretion of the writer via quick tags.
- Allow the quick creation of simple and complex tables.
- Allow the simple application of style, class, id, language and alignment attributes to elements.
- Create hyperlinks and insert images via quick tags.
- Define acronyms via quick tags.
- Wrap an tag around runs of three or more capital letters automatically.
- Convert
(TM), (R), and (C) to ™, ®, and ©.
- Convert the letter x to a dimension sign:
2x4 to 2×4 and 8x10 to 8×10.