What Textile Does
Replace single and double primes (’ and “) used as quotation marks with HTML entities for opening and closing quotation marks (‘’ and “”) in readable text, while leaving untouched the primes required within HTML tags.
Replaced double hyphens (—) with an em-dash (—) entity.
Replace single hyphens surrounded by spaces with an en-dash (–) entity.
Replace triplets of periods (...) with an ellipsis (…) entity.
Convert many nonstandard characters (ŸúߊπŒ) to browser-safe entities corresponding to keyboard input.
Apply block- and phrase-level structural tags automatically and at the discretion of the writer via quick tags.
Create hyperlinks and insert images via quick tags.
Define acronyms via quick tags
Wrap an tag around runs of three or more capital letters automatically.
Convert™, (R), and© to ™, ®, and ©
Convert the letter x to a dimension sign: 2×4 to 2×4 and 8×10 to 8×10
Find the first person who broke your heart and report back on how devoid of joy their current life is.