The Evil Widows & Orphans
Personally I can’t stand widows and orphans and I’ve encountered a number of designers that pay no attention to them, some of them don’t even know what they are. A shame really. Anyway, one thing I don’t like about Wordpress is how there’s almost no way to easily control the typography of each post. In comes Typogrify, a plug-in originally created by Christian Metts for Django and ported to WP by Hamish. It’s an excellent little plug-in that includes the Smartypants and Widont engines.
Here’s what it can do:
- Prevents text “widows”.
- Run text through SmartyPants.
- Wrap initial quotes (and French style (Guillemets) quotes) in class=’dquo’ or class=’quo’ depending on if they are single or double.
- Wrap ampersands in class=’amp’.
- Wrap multiple adjacent capital letters in class=’caps’.
- Add a thinspace before and after en and em dashes.
- And of course it has a function to do all of the above.
I love the damn thing and it will make my life more fulfilling. If you run a WP blog download the plug-in so we can do away with Widows & Orphans once and for all!
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- Published:
- 11.13.07 / 6pm
- Category:
- Technology, Typography
- Tags:
- plugin, smartypants, Typography, typogrify, widont, wordpress
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