textr

Textr is simple framework to compose text transformation functions

Textr is good instrument to create modular tools to make your typography better. It can compose any functions that get text, transform it and return result of processing. For example, check out few: typographic-quotes, typographic-math-symbols, typographic-em-dashes and typographic-ellipses.

Plugins are available on npm, labelled with textr keyword. Also you can easily create new one. Don’t be scared.

Idea behind textr

Typography for everybody! At the same time it’s impossible to create one ideal typographic engine. It doesn’t work this way. What we can do with it? We can easily create and maintain small, simple, full-tested and single responsible modules. After this we can compose bunch of these well done modules for every specific situation we need, and everybody will be happy with it’s own ideal text transformer.

Install

npm install --save textr

Usage

var textr    = require('textr');
var ellipses = require('typographic-ellipses');
var spaces   = require('typographic-single-spaces');
var quotes  = require('typographic-quotes');

// Create new text transformer by compose yours
tf = textr({ locale: 'ru'})
  .use(ellipses)
  .use(spaces)
  .use(quotes)
  .use(String.prototype.trim)
;

// then just send some text to the transformer
tf('Hello  "world"...\n'); // Hello «world»…

API

textr(defaults)

Create new textr transform function (tf). You can pass default options when create new transform stack.

tf.use(...fn)

Register transform function as tf middleware.

tf.exec(text, options)

Process given text by the middlewares.

tf(text)

Identical to tf.exec(text). This alias makes tf just regular transform function, that you can register as middleware for textr as well.

var typorgapher = textr().use(typography, tools, here)
var autocorrector = textr().use(autocorrection, things)
var smiles = textr().use(text, to, smiles, goodies)

var tf = textr()
  .use(typographer)
  .use(autocorrector)
  .use(smiles)
;

tf(text); // oh, that's awesome!11

Plugins API

Each plugin will be called with 2 arguments: text and options setted on textr().

function plugin(text, options) {
  console.log(options); // { locale: 'ru' }
  return text;
}

To support String.prototype methods as transformation functions, this value is equal to the text.

There are plugins for PostHTML

Few words for plugin creators

👍🎉 First off, you are awesome and thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍

Testability

As far as we want to go beyond monolythic typographic engines, then we (as ecosystem) need to have small atomic 100% covered with tests plugins. That’s why please have index.js and test.js in the repository and .travis.yml to validate pull-requests. Badges about npm version, passing tests and tests coverage are optionable, but preferred.

Give a chance to npm scripts as cross-platform tool for automatization.

README

Everyone will read README, and only ones—sources. Please include in your readme file following sections: package name, description, installation instructions, usage section with spec from tests and license note. License note is important for enterprise users. We want to create ecosystem, so it’s reasonable to have a link to textr in README’s plugins, good place for it is in the top, maybe in the short description.

'locale' option consistence

tl;dr: Use ISO 639 and rely on locale codes like these: en-uk, en-us, zh-Hans, ru, da, sv—regular values for lang attribute.

Typography is locale dependent by it’s nature, that’s why locale option is most usable option and this is a good reason to be consistent about. We looked around and found that ISO 639 standard is very well fits us, the fact that it was chosen by w3c for defining lang attribute assure us to use this unification.

License

MIT © Shuvalov Anton, Vladimir Starkov