typopo

Fix frequent microtypography errors in multiple languages. Write neat texts without bothering about typography rules. Typopo works for English, German, Slovak, Czech and Rusyn language.

Links

• Official website
• Online app
• VS Code extension and corresponding repository
• NPM package
• Support the project at Patreon
• Subscribe to a newsletter to get updates
• Follow on twitter

Contents

• Links
• Contents
• Features
• Use
  • Online app
  • VS Code extension
  • NPM package
  • JavaScript library
  • API
• News & Releases
• Support
• Feedback
• License
• Special thanks

Features

Typopo fixes microtypography hickups in five languages:

• English
• German
• Czech
• Slovak
• Rusyn

Typopo fixes punctuation:

• double quotes (and accidentally-typed punctuation related to the use of double quotes)
• double primes
• single quotes (with an assumption they are used as secondary and in pairs)
• single primes
• apostrophes
• hyphens & dashes
  • between words with a proper spacing per locale
  • between ordinal and cardinal numbers (e.g. 1–3 eggs)
  • within date (e.g. 2020–08–04)
  • between percentage range (e.g. 20–30 %)
• period & ellipsis

Typopo fixes whitespace characters:

• removes extra white spaces
  • at the beginning and the end of sentences (leading and trailing spaces)
  • between words and paragraphs
  • before or after a punctuation (where applicable)
  • around an ellipsis and an aposiopesis (where applicable)
  • between a number sign (#) and a number
  • before ordinal indicators (e.g. 1 st → 1st)
• removes empty lines
• fixes non-breaking spaces
  • removes a nbsp between multi-letter words
  • replaces a space with a nbsp
    • after one-word prepositions
    • around “×”
    • after “&”
    • after cardinal numbers
    • after ordinal numbers
    • ordinal Roman numerals
    • after name initials (i.e. Philip K. Dick)
    • after common single-word and multiple-word abbreviations
    • before % (percent), ‰ (per mille), ‱ (permyriad)

Typopo fixes words:

• accidental uPPERCASE
• spelling of e.g., i.e., a.m. and p.m.
• ISSN and ISBN formatting

Typopo fixes symbols:

• multiplication sign (2 x 3 → 2 × 3)
• section sign (§)
• copyright ((c)2020 → © 2020)
• sound recording copyright ((p)2020 → ℗ 2020)
• registered trademark (Brand(r) → Brand®)
• trademark (Brand(tm) → Brand™)
• plus-minus sign (+-, -+ → ±)
• square and cube exponents (e.g. 100 µm² → 100 µm², 50 km³ → 50 km³)

Use

You can use Typopo as an online app, VS Code extension, NPM package or JavaScript library.

Online app

URL → https://typopo.org/

The online app is useful especially when you’re a book designer or a DTP operator. Before you typeset raw texts in a DTP app of your choice, run it through Typopo and fix microtypography with a single click.

VS Code extension

NPM package

Install Typopo as an NPM package in your web project:

npm install typopo

Import the package:

import { fixTypos } from 'typopo';

Check out an API on how to use the package.

JavaScript library

Download dist/typopo.min.js and include it in your web project or CMS. Check out an API on how to use the library.

API

Fix typos in given text (string) and locale; with an optional configuration:

fixTypos(string, locale, [configuration])

Locale options (supported languages):

• "en-us" (English, default)
• "rue" (Rusyn)
• "sk" (Slovak)
• "cs" (Czech)
• "de-de" (German)

Optional configuration as a JavaScript object:

configuration = {
  // If true, removes empty lines between paragraphs
  removeLines : true, 
  
  // if true, removes empty lines before a nested Markdown list; 
  // set as false when you use Typopo to fix typography of your Markdown files
  // see examples: https://github.com/surfinzap/typopo/releases/tag/2%2F4%2F0
  removeWhitespacesBeforeMarkdownList : true, 

	// if true, markdown code blocks (i.e. `code`, ``code``, ```code```) will be ignored from being identified as incorrectly used single quote or double quote pairs
	// set as false when you want to fix typos in generic texts (non-Markdown files)
	// set as true when you want to keep Markdown code blocks in your Markdown files
	keepMarkdownCodeBlocks: false,
}

News & Releases

Check out the changelog for what’s has been released.

Subscribe to Typopo Newsletter to be the first to know about all the new features and improvements.

Support

If you love Typopo and you find it helpful, support the project via Patreon.

Your support will let me continue improving Typopo ecosystem—the app, NPM package and VS Code Extension.

Feedback

Have you found a bug? Do you have an idea for a feature request? You’re more then welcome to submit an issue here on GitHub.

If you prefer to reach out me via email, feel free to drop me a line at [e-mail].

License

Licensed under MIT license. (See LICENCE.TXT.)

Special thanks

• @Viclick for adjusting the repo for modularisation (2.0.0)
• @tomashruby for consultation on architecture (2.0.0)
• @skurzinz for consultation & test on German typographic rules (2.2.0)
• Filip Blažek for consultation on typography rules
• @vit-svoboda for fixing the package to run in Node.js projects (2.3.1)