DaveE, That’s a reasonable approach, but I don’t want to force users to
have to remember curly quotes when creating content. I’d rather do it at
the moment of display.
Magnus, RubyPants is a great solution, but I can’t help noticing that
RedCloth is much smarter than RubyPants about sentences like 'Tis true
that
I met him in '04. RedCloth correctly makes both single quotes into
close-quotes, whereas RubyPants incorrectly makes both of them into
open-quotes.
So I guess I’m still looking for a way to either use just the quotes
functionality of RedCloth (i.e., not parsing asterisks or underscores,
etc.), or a way to tweak RubyPants (or an alternative) to bring it up to
RedCloth’s level of correctness for parsing quotes.
Any thoughts?