Markdown Discuss - Sep 2009 - Scripting: Invoke Markdown *before* SmartyPants

I could not find anywhere in John Gruber's documentation the  
recommended order of Markdown vs. SmartyPants in a scripted process.   
I guessed SmartyPants first, and that worked until I tried to encode a  
link with a title like this:

    An [example](http://url.com/ "Title")

SmartyPants encoded the quotes, which created a mess.

So, I changed the order to process text through Markdown first, then  
SmartyPants.  So far, so good.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Krinock <jerry at ieee.org>
wrote:
> So, I changed the order to process text through Markdown first, then
> SmartyPants. ?So far, so good.
That's what you want. Also, Smartypants won't reach into <pre>,
<code>, <script> blocks, etc. -- provided they exist in the input,
which they likely won't until after a Markdown transform.

LQ