(forwarded to list. Whoops.)
On 5/11/05, Nicolas Weeger <nicolas.weeger(a)laposte.net> wrote:
> > I'd also like to suggest the removal of the workaround (occupying most
> > of the first half of parser.php doQuotes) dealing with confusion of
> > quotes-as-text and quotes-as-markup within words. In other words, the
> > workaround provides that "l'''italic''plain" renders as
> > "l<i>italic</i>plain".
> >
> <snipped>
> > Hopefully its use is
> > rather rare; would it be possible to run a scan to find out more
> > conclusively?
>
> Fatal error: failed assert( not_much_in_use ); on line 345 :)
> This is widely used (at least) on w:fr: and is *required* - many words
> starting with a vowel will yield a leading "l'", sometimes we want to
> highlight only the word after.
>
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Andrew
>
> Nicolas
>
I had guessed that it might find some use in fr -- It's too bad to
hear that it's "widely" used. However, I should note that it's not
_required_. <nowiki> resolves the ambiguity nicely. The fact that it
takes 17 characters is, well, unfortunate, but it's _correct_. The
workaround, on the other hand, does bad things to the language, and
makes the implementation of a more advanced parser exceedingly
difficult.
Andrew