# crowbook-text-processing
[](https://travis-ci.org/lise-henry/crowbook-text-processing)
Some utilities functions for processing texts.
These functions were originally written for
[Crowbook](https://github.com/lise-henry/crowbook), but have
been published on a separate crate and under a less restrictive
license (MPL instead of LGPL) so they can be used elsewhere.
## Example
```rust
use crowbook_text_processing::{
FrenchFormatter,
escape_html,
escape_tex,
remove_whitespaces,
};
let s = " Some string with too much whitespaces & around 1% \
characters that might cause trouble to HTML or LaTeX.";
// Remove unnecessary whitespaces (but doesn't trim at is can have meaning)
let new_s = remove_whitespaces(s);
// Display to HTML
println!("for HTML: {}", escape_html(new_s.clone()));
// Display to LaTeX
println!("for LaTeX: {}", escape_tex(new_s));
// Format whitespaces according to french typographic rules, using
// the appropriate non-breaking spaces where needed
let s = " Une chaîne en français ! On voudrait un résultat \
« typographiquement correct ».";
let french = FrenchFormatter::new();
println!("for text: {}", french.format(s));
println!("for LaTeX: {}", escape_tex(french.format_tex(s)));
```
## Requirements
* `rustc >= 1.6.0`
## Semantic versioning
While not yet at version `1.0`, this crates tries to follows semantic
versioning in the following way:
* an increase of `x` in `0.x.y` means breaking changes.
* an increase of `y` in `0.x.y` means non-breaking changes.