User:Chocolateboy/smart quotes.user.js

This Greasemonkey user script converts typewriter quotation marks to “smart” quotes and triple periods to ellipses. Text inside

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1. Install [http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ Greasemonkey] >= 0.3
2. Open the URL in the Script section below

• “double quotes” should appear as smart quotes: “double quotes”
• single–hyphen should appear as an en dash: single–hyphen
• double — hyphen should appear as an em dash: double — hyphen
• ellipsis… should appear as a single character: ellipsis…

• https://raw.github.com/chocolateboy/userscripts/master/wikipedia_smart_quotes.user.js

• 1.0.1 don't change hyphens to dashes
• 1.0.0 add support for HTTPS; support other languages; add grant
• 0.14 refine exclusions
• 0.13 exclude diffs
• 0.12 exclude articles with unbalanced quotation marks
• 0.11 var cleanup
• 0.10 remove redundant loop
• 0.09 order the replacements so that double hyphens are processed before single hyphens
• 0.08 properly fix ellipsis regex
• 0.07 exclude preformatted text
• 0.06 access text node children of rather than

  so that

• nodes are included
• 0.05 better handling of double quotes
• 0.04 further constrain ellipsis regex + correct JavaScript replacement pattern syntax
• 0.03 fix ellipsis regex
• 0.02 only modify text nodes that are descendants of

  nodes

• 0.01 original version

• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dashes)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Quotation marks and apostrophes)

• [http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/videos/install–user–script.html How to install a Greasemonkey user script] (Flash video)
• [http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/casestudy/dumbquotes.html DumbQuotes]