Text Formatter with Dash Delimiter Support

Overview

Build a text formatting tool that processes multi-part titles containing various types of dash delimiters. The tool should properly capitalize text segments separated by different dash characters commonly used in typography.

Requirements

Your implementation should:

1. Process dash-delimited titles: Accept text input containing different Unicode dash characters as segment separators
2. Handle multiple dash types: Support the following dash characters:
   • Hyphen-minus: - (U+002D)
   • En dash: – (U+2013)
   • Figure dash: ‒ (U+2012)
   • Em dash: — (U+2014)
   • Horizontal bar: ― (U+2015)
3. Capitalize after dashes: Ensure that the first word following any dash delimiter is properly capitalized
4. Preserve dash characters: Maintain the original dash type in the output

Test Cases

Basic Dash Handling { .section }

@test Input: "episode 7 — the force awakens" Expected output: Properly capitalize "the" after the em dash

@test Input: "new york – london flight" Expected output: Properly capitalize "london" after the en dash

Multiple Dash Types { .section }

@test Input: "part one — introduction: part two – the story begins" Expected output: Handle both em dash and en dash correctly, capitalizing words after each

Implementation Notes

• Focus on correctly identifying and handling different dash types as phrase delimiters
• The solution should work with Unicode text processing
• Test your implementation with the provided test cases

Deliverables

1. formatter.py - Main implementation file containing the text formatting logic
2. tests.py - Test file with test cases demonstrating correct dash handling

Dependencies { .dependencies }

titlecase { .dependency }

Provides intelligent title case conversion with support for various punctuation marks and delimiters.