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<h1>Typography<a class="headerlink" href="#typography" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>The Typography library contains methods that help you format text
in semantically relevant ways.</p>
<nav class="contents local" id="contents">
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#loading-the-library" id="id1">Loading the Library</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#available-static-functions" id="id2">Available static functions</a></p></li>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1" role="doc-backlink">Loading the Library</a><a class="headerlink" href="#loading-the-library" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Like all services in CodeIgniter, it can be loaded via <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Config\Services</span></code>, though you usually will not need
to load it manually:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$typography</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">service</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;typography&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" role="doc-backlink">Available static functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#available-static-functions" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>The following functions are available:</p>
<dl class="php function">
<dt class="sig sig-object php" id="autoTypography">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">autoTypography</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="pre">$str</span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="pre">$reduce_linebreaks</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">false</span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#autoTypography" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Parameters<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>$str</strong> (<span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">string</span></code></span>) Input string</p></li>
<li><p><strong>$reduce_linebreaks</strong> (<span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bool</span></code></span>) Whether to reduce multiple instances of double newlines to two</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Returns<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>HTML-formatted typography-safe string</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Return type<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p><span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">string</span></code></span></p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Formats text so that it is semantically and typographically correct
HTML.</p>
<p>Usage example:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$typography</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">autoTypography</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span>
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<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Typographic formatting can be processor intensive, particularly if
you have a lot of content being formatted. If you choose to use this
function you may want to consider <a class="reference internal" href="../general/caching.html"><span class="doc">caching</span></a> your
pages.</p>
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</dd></dl>
<dl class="php function">
<dt class="sig sig-object php" id="formatCharacters">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">formatCharacters</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="pre">$str</span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#formatCharacters" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Parameters<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>$str</strong> (<span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">string</span></code></span>) Input string</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Returns<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>String with formatted characters.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Return type<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p><span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">string</span></code></span></p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>This function mainly converts double and single quotes
to curly entities, but it also converts em-dashes,
double spaces, and ampersands.</p>
<p>Usage example:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$typography</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">formatCharacters</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span>
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</dd></dl>
<dl class="php function">
<dt class="sig sig-object php" id="nl2brExceptPre">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">nl2brExceptPre</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="pre">$str</span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#nl2brExceptPre" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Parameters<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>$str</strong> (<span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">string</span></code></span>) Input string</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt class="field-even">Returns<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-even"><p>String with HTML-formatted line breaks</p>
</dd>
<dt class="field-odd">Return type<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p><span><code class="xref php php-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">string</span></code></span></p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Converts newlines to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;br</span> <span class="pre">/&gt;</span></code> tags unless they appear within <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;pre&gt;</span></code> tags.
This function is identical to the native PHP <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nl2br()</span></code> function,
except that it ignores <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;pre&gt;</span></code> tags.</p>
<p>Usage example:</p>
<div class="highlight-html+php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$typography</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">nl2brExceptPre</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span>
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