On 11/10/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
I would view bold italics with adjacent apostrophes as a corner case. The behavior in that case makes very little sense and I doubt it's being widely used.
There's one obvious use: French. Eg: L''''arc de triomphe de l'Étoile''' appelé...
(though interestingly when I got to that page, the initial ' was actually a ')
But yes, clearer, unambiguous syntax that didn't rely on arbitrary processing rules would be good.
For example one might define a character like _ which represents a non-joining non-space. So the above could be written L'_'''arc de triomphe''' which would be clearer and unambiguous.
Steve