Typographer

Typographer for Obsidian

Typographer is a plugin for enhancing your writing with correct typography. I created it to automate the use of smart quotes, custom text replacements, and auto-pairing of characters like guillemets.

The plugin works in the background as you type, ignoring code blocks, frontmatter, and other areas where you wouldn't want these changes.

Features

• Smart Quotes: Automatically converts straight quotes (") into typographic ("curly") quotes as you type. You can define your own opening and closing quotation marks (e.g., «» or “”).
• Custom Text Replacements: Set up your own rules to replace character sequences. For example, automatically change != to ≠ or << to «.
• Auto-Pairing: Define pairs of characters that should be automatically closed. For example, typing « can automatically insert its closing counterpart » and place the cursor in between.
• Configurable Rules: All replacement and auto-pairing rules can be added, edited, or removed from the settings menu.

How to Install

1. Open Settings in Obsidian.
2. Go to Community plugins and make sure that «Restricted mode» is turned off.
3. Click Browse to open the community plugins store.
4. Search for «Typographer».
5. Click Install, and then Enable once it has downloaded.

How to Use

The plugin is active as soon as you enable it. Its behaviour can be fully customised from the settings panel.

Settings

You can find the settings under Settings → Community Plugins → Typographer.

• Smart quotes: A master switch to enable or disable automatic conversion of straight quotes.
  • Opening/Closing quotation mark: Specify the characters you want to use for your typographic quotes.
• Auto-pairing rules: A section to manage rules for characters that should be paired automatically (e.g., brackets or custom quotes).
• Text replacement rules: A section to manage rules for sequences that should be replaced automatically as you type.

Support Me

If you find this plugin useful, you can support its development on Ko-fi.