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Smart Typography for Obsidian

Automatically replaces straight quotes with curly quotes, double hyphens with em dashes, and three periods with ellipsis characters.

Chinese summary

自动将直引号替换为弯引号,双连字符替换为长破折号,三个句点替换为省略号。

Key Use Cases

  • Writing blog posts or articles
  • Preparing academic papers
  • Creating markdown documents with proper typography
  • Editing prose in Obsidian

Pros

  • Improves visual appearance and readability
  • Saves time on manual character replacement
  • Works in real-time as you type
  • Supports standard typographic conventions

Limitations

  • May alter intended formatting in code blocks or inline code
  • Not necessary for casual note-taking
  • Can be confusing if user expects straight quotes

Tags

typographyquotesdashesellipsisformatting

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