Smarttext

The smarttext field type provides a single-line text field, but the output is processed to translate plain text punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation.

This makes it particularly suited to text like headings.

<perch:content id="heading" type="smarttext" label="Heading" required>

The following changes are made:

• Straight quotes " and ' are turned into “curly” quotes
• Dashes -- and --- are turned into en- and em-dashes
• Three consecutive dots ... are turned into an ellipsis

Unlike a regular textarea processed with Textile or Markdown, the content isn’t wrapped in block-level paragraphs – only punctuation is changed.

By default, unicode characters are used. If you’re not serving your pages as UTF-8, you may wish to use HTML entities instead. This can be done with the following setting in your perch/config/config.php file:

define('PERCH_HTML_ENTITIES', true);