Kirby-Typography

This is a port of wp-Typography for Kirby CMS. Based on the PHP_Typography class, this plugin enhances the typography of you kirby-powered website. Think of it a more advanced alternative to the built-in SmartyPants parser.

Current version: 1.0.0-beta1

Table of Contents

• 1 Key Features
• 2 Download and Installation
  • 2.1 Requirements
  • 2.2 Kirby CLI
  • 2.3 Git Submodule
  • 2.4 Copy and Paste
• 3 Usage
  • 3.1 CSS and JavaScript Setup
• 4 Configuration
  • 4.1 Localization for Multilingual Sites
  • 4.2 General Options
  • 4.3 Smart Quotes
  • 4.4 Smart Character Replacements
  • 4.5 Smart Spacing
  • 4.6 Character Styling and Hanging Punctuation
  • 4.7 Hyphenation
  • 4.8 CSS Classes
• 5 Recommended Settings for Different Languages
• 6 License
• 7 Credits

1 Key Features

• Hyphenation: Hyphenate text, very handy for justified text or languages with very long words, but also for English. Supports a large number of languages and offers fine-grained control over hyphenation.
• Smart Replacements: Includes Smart quotes (i.e. „Curly Quotes“, «Guillemets», »Chevrons« or German „Gänsefüßchen“) and smart ordinal suffixes.
• CSS Hooks: Add <span class="[…]"> tags around characters like ampersands, CAPITALIZED WORDS etc.
• Hanging Punctuation: Add the twinkle of the print-era to your site.
• Wraps URLs: Prevents long URLs from overflowing their container element on small screens.
• Smart Math: Converts mathematical symbols into their correct counterpart. E.g. (2x6)/3=4 becomes (2×6)÷3=4.
• Caching: Processing text like this plugin does is a very performance-hungry task. So the results are always cached, even if Kirby’s cache option is turned off. Cache will automatically be updated, if you change your content or update the plugin. It also comes with a Dashboard Widget, so you can flush the cache from your panel.

… and basically every other feature of wp-Typography :-)

2 Download and Installation

2.1 Requirements

• PHP 5.4.0+ with multibyte extension (mbstring)
• Kirby 2.3.0+ (not compatible with Kirby 3)

2.2 Kirby CLI

If you’re using the Kirby CLI, you need to cd to the root directory of your Kirby installation and run the following command:

kirby plugin:install fabianmichael/kirby-typography

This will download and copy Kirby-Typography into site/plugins/typography.

2.3 Git Submodule

To install this plugin as a git submodule, execute the following command from the root of your kirby project:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/fabianmichael/kirby-typography.git site/plugins/typography

2.4 Copy and Paste

1. Download the contents of this repository as ZIP-file.
2. Rename the extracted folder to typography and copy it into the site/plugins/ directory in your Kirby project.

3 Usage

The plugin is enabled by default and replaces the SmartyPants parser of your Kirby installation. That means, typographic enhancements are applied to Kirbytext by default.

I tried to setup sane defaults, but you might have different requirements for your site. You can change any of the plugin’s settings in your config.php file.

3.1 CSS and JavaScript Setup

CSS: Not all features of the plugin need extra CSS rules, but for stuff like hanging punctuation, and character styling to work properly, it is recommended or even necessary to add the plugin’s CSS file to your site. Add <?= css('assets/plugins/typography/css/typography.css') ?> to your template or – even better – copy the rules to your own stylesheet. Note, that some features like hanging punctuation should be tuned in accordance to the font you have chosen.

JavaScript: Hyphenation works by inserting invisible so-called »shy hyphens« (­) into works, telling the browser where a word may be hyphenated. Unfortunately, these invisible characters stay in the text, when it is copied from your site. To keep copied text easily editable, it is recommended (though not mandatory) to also include the supplied JavaScript file to your code. Just add <?= js('assets/plugins/typography/js/dist/copyfix.min.js') ?> into to your template.

4 Configuration

You can find a description of all available configuration options below. Customization works just like with any other configuration of Kirby. Your can read more about configuration in the Kirby docs. The default settings of this plugin were chosen for United States (US) English.

4.1 Localization for Multilingual Sites

If your Kirby installation is configured for multiple languages, you might want to use different settings for every language. In this case, you can define a common baseline of settings – shared by all languages – in your config file. Use the language files in site/languages/ to define localized versions of your settings. Note, that in the language files, settings need to be configured with l::set(), because those localizations are treated as language variables:

# site/config/config.php
c::set('typography.class.ampersand', 'ch-amp'); // CSS classes are most likely shared across languages

# site/languages/fr.php
l::set('typography.quotes.primary', 'doubleGuillemetsFrench'); // Quote styles are language-specific …
l::set('typography.quotes.secondary', 'doubleCurled');
l::set('typography.hyphenation.language', 'fr'); // … and so are hyphenation rules

# site/languages/de.php
l::set('typography.quotes.primary', 'doubleLow9Reversed');
l::set('typography.quotes.secondary', 'singleLow9Reversed');
l::set('typography.hyphenation.language', 'de');

At the end of this document, you can find a list of recommended settings for different languages, you can use as a starting point for your own configuration.

4.2 General Options

4.3 Smart Quotes

Available Styles for Smart Quotes:

4.4 Smart Character Replacements

1) In the US, the em dash — with no or very little spacing — is used for parenthetical expressions, while internationally, the en dash – with spaces – is more prevalent.

2) Some fonts support smart fractions via an OpenType feature called “frac”, but is has to be enabled manually by declaring the font-feature-settings property in CSS. As of 2016, this is not supported by all major browsers. If you need this to work in everywhere, you should not rely on the OpenType feature and leave this setting turned on. The only exception where you really should disable this feature are monospaced fonts, because using smaller digits will break the fixed-width grid, your letters are sitting on. Details on browser support for the frac feature can be found at The State of Web Type and Can I use.

4.5 Smart Spacing

4.6 Character Styling and Hanging Punctuation

The following options add <span> tags around certain parts of your content to create CSS hooks, allowing you to style specific parts of your text.

4.7 Hyphenation

3) Hyphenation rules are available for the following languages: af, hy, eu, bg, ca, zh-Latn, hr, cs, da, nl, en-GB, en-US, et, fi, fr, gl, ka, de, de-1901, grc, el-Mono, el-Poly, hu, is, id, ia, ga, it, la, la-classic, lv, lt, mn-Cyrl, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, sa, sr-Cyrl, sh-Cyrl, sh-Latn, sk, sl, es, sv, th, tr, tk, uk, cy

4.8 CSS Classes

Some of the options above add <span> tags around single characters or sequences of characters, so you hook into their presentation via good ol’ CSS. If you don’t like the rather long class names I have chosen as default, feel free to change ’em to whatever you like by settings the options below:

5 Recommended Settings for Different Languages

The following recommendations are based on common typographic conventions of those languages. That does not mean, that you have to stick to them, but their make a good starting point for your own settings. Is your language missing in this list? Feel free to create an issue or pull request and I will add settings for your language to the list.

Important: If your site is multilingual, you need to define those settings in site/languages/[language code].php, using l::set() instead of c::set, if you want to use different settings per language.

French (France):

c::set([
  'typography.punctuation.spacing.french' => true,
  'typography.dashes.style'               => 'em', // cadratin ('en' for demi-cadratin)
  'typography.quotes.primary'             => 'doubleGuillemetsFrench',
  'typography.quotes.secondary'           => 'doubleCurled',
  'typography.hyphenation.language'       => 'fr',
]);

German (Germany):

c::set([
  'typography.dashes.style'         => 'en',
  'typography.quotes.primary'       => 'doubleLow9Reversed',
  'typography.quotes.secondary'     => 'singleLow9Reversed',
  'typography.hyphenation.language' => 'de',
]);

Note: In books, sometimes Chevrons [ »foo« ] are used as quotation marks instead. Use doubleGuillemetsReversed and singleGuillemetsReversed if you prefer that style.

6 License

Kirby-Typography is released under the GNU General Public License 3.0 or later. See LICENSE file for details (FYI: This is mandatory, because wp-Typography is also released under GPL. I would have preferred the MIT license.).

7 Credits

Kirby-Typography is developed and maintained by Fabian Michael.

The plugin includes or is based on the following third-party libraries:

• PHP-Typography: Copyright 2014-2016 Peter Putzer; 2012-2013 Marie Hogebrandt; 2009-2011 KINGdesk, LLC. Released under the GPL 2.0 or later. Large parts of this documentation have also been copied and/or adapted from the original WordPress plugin.
• HTML5-PHP: Released under the HTML5Lib License (see vendors/masterminds/HTML5/LICENSE for details and contributors)
• A List of all Top-Level-Domains, maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) (automatically updated once a week)
• JavaScript (copyfix.js) based on Hyphenator 5.2.0(devel). Copyright 2015 by Mathias Nater. Originally released under the MIT license.