Typopo extension for VS Code

Fix frequent microtypography errors in multiple languages in VS Code with Typopo. Write neat texts without bothering about typography rules. Typopo works for English, German, Slovak, Czech and Rusyn language.

Fix typos in code

Fix your texts with Typopo, so you don’t need to escape \"dumb quotes\" or place  . Typopo will place all the relevant characters for you.

Fix typos in Markdown notes

Write neat notes without bothering about all the typography rules.

Contents

• Typopo extension for VS Code
  • Fix typos in code
  • Fix typos in Markdown notes
  • Contents
  • Use
  • Settings
  • Features
  • Further use
  • News & Releases
  • Support
  • Feedback
  • License

Use

1. Select the text you wish to fix (or place a cursor on a line you wish to fix)
2. Fix it, either by Typopo: Fix Typos via the menu or Ctrl+Alt+T (Win) or Ctrl+Cmd+T (Mac).

Settings

You can:

• set a default language for typography rules:
  • English
  • German
  • Rusyn
  • Czech
  • Slovak
• choose to keep/remove empty lines

Note: Typopo automatically detects markdown files (.md, .mdx, .mdc) and preserves markdown syntax: code blocks, tables, formatting, and YAML/TOML frontmatter.

Features

Typopo fixes microtypography hiccups in five languages:

• English
• German
• Czech
• Slovak
• Rusyn

Typopo fixes punctuation:

• double quotes (and accidentally typed punctuation related to the use of double quotes)
• direct speech introduction (colon/comma before opening double quotes)
• double primes
• single quotes (with an assumption they are used as secondary and in pairs)
• single primes
• apostrophes
• hyphens & dashes
  • between words with a proper spacing per locale
  • between ordinal and cardinal numbers (e.g. 1–3 eggs)
  • within date (e.g. 2020–08–04)
  • between percentage range (e.g. 20–30 %)
• period & ellipsis

Typopo fixes whitespace characters:

• removes extra white spaces
  • at the beginning and the end of sentences (leading and trailing spaces)
  • between words and paragraphs
  • before or after punctuation (where applicable)
  • around an ellipsis and an aposiopesis (where applicable)
  • between a number sign (#) and a number
  • before ordinal indicators (e.g. 1 st → 1st)
• removes empty lines
• fixes non-breaking spaces
  • removes a nbsp between multi-letter words
  • replaces a space with a nbsp
    • after one-word prepositions
    • around “×”,
    • after “&”, “§”, “¶”, “©”, “℗”, “№”
    • after cardinal numbers
    • after ordinal numbers
    • after ordinal Roman numerals
    • before single capital letters that are part of the phrase (e.g. Project X)
    • after name initials (e.g. Philip K. Dick)
    • after common single-word and multiple-word abbreviations
    • before % (percent), ‰ (per mille), ‱ (per myriad)

Typopo fixes words:

• accidental uPPERCASE
• the spelling of e.g., i.e., a.m. and p.m.
• ISSN and ISBN formatting

Typopo fixes symbols:

• multiplication sign (2 x 3 → 2 × 3)
• copyright ((c)2020 → © 2020)
• sound recording copyright ((p)2020 → ℗ 2020)
• registered trademark (Brand(r) → Brand®)
• service mark (Brand(sm) → Brand℠)
• trademark (Brand(tm) → Brand™)
• plus-minus sign (+-, -+ → ±)
• square and cube exponents (e.g. 100 µm² → 100 µm², 50 km³ → 50 km³)

Further use

• Typopo as a free web app
• Typopo as an NPM package
• Typopo’s source code at Github

News & Releases

Check out the Release notes, or typopo_app on X.

Support

If you love Typopo and you find it helpful, buy me a coffee. Or, give it a nice starry review here at marketplace.

Your support will let me continue improving Typopo ecosystem—the app, NPM package and VS Code Extension. Thanks!

Feedback

Have you found a bug? Do you have an idea for a feature request? You’re more then welcome to submit an issue here on GitHub.

If you prefer to reach out me via email, feel free to drop me a line at help@typopo.org.

License

Licensed under MIT license. (See LICENSE.txt.)