retext-quotes

Check quotes and apostrophes, and warn if their style ("straight" or “smart”) or level of nesting is not the preferred style. All with retext.

Installation

npm:

npm install retext-quotes

Usage

var retext = require('retext');
var english = require('retext-english');
var quotes = require('retext-quotes');
var report = require('vfile-reporter');

retext().use(english).use(quotes).process([
  'A sentence "with quotes, \'nested\' quotes,',
  'and \'80s apostrophes."'
].join('\n'), function (err, file) {
  console.log(report(err || file));
});

Yields:

  1:12-1:13  warning  Expected a smart quote: `“`, not `"`       quote
  1:26-1:27  warning  Expected a smart quote: `‘`, not `'`       quote
  1:33-1:34  warning  Expected a smart quote: `’`, not `'`       quote
    2:5-2:6  warning  Expected a smart apostrophe: `’`, not `'`  apostrophe
  2:22-2:23  warning  Expected a smart quote: `”`, not `"`       quote

⚠ 5 warnings

This plugin can be configured to prefer “straight” quotes instead:

-retext().use(english).use(quotes).process([
+retext().use(english).use(quotes, {preferred: 'straight'}).process([
   'A sentence "with quotes, \'nested\' quotes,',

Yields:

no issues found

Or, pass in different markers that count as “smart”:

-retext().use(english).use(quotes).process([
+retext().use(english).use(quotes, {smart: ['«»', '‹›']}).process([
   'A sentence "with quotes, \'nested\' quotes,',

Yields:

  1:12-1:13  warning  Expected a smart quote: `«`, not `"`       quote
  1:26-1:27  warning  Expected a smart quote: `‹`, not `'`       quote
  1:33-1:34  warning  Expected a smart quote: `›`, not `'`       quote
    2:5-2:6  warning  Expected a smart apostrophe: `’`, not `'`  apostrophe
  2:22-2:23  warning  Expected a smart quote: `»`, not `"`       quote

⚠ 5 warnings

API

retext().use(quotes[, options])

Emit warnings when the use of quotes doesn’t match the preferred style.

This plug-in knows about apostrophes as well and prefers ' when preferred: 'straight', and ’ otherwise.

The values in straight and smart can be one or two characters. When two, the first character determines the opening quote and the second the closing quote at that level. When one, both the opening and closing quote are that character.

Additionally, the order in which the preferred quotes appear in their respective list determines which quotes to use at which level of nesting. So, to prefer ‘’ at the first level of nesting, and “” at the second, pass: smart: ['‘’', '“”'].

If quotes are nested deeper than the given amount of quotes, the markers wrap around: a third level of nesting when using smart: ['«»', '‹›'] should have double guillemets, a fourth single, a fifth double again, etc.

options

• preferred ('smart' or 'straight', default: 'smart') — Style of quotes to prefer
• straight (Array.<string>, default: ['"', '\'']) — List of quotes to see as “straight”
• smart (Array.<string>, default: ['“”', '‘’']) — List of quotes to see as “smart”

Related

• retext-contractions — Check apostrophe use in contractions
• retext-diacritics — Check for proper use of diacritics
• retext-sentence-spacing — Check spacing (one or two spaces) between sentences

License

MIT © Titus Wormer