On 11/28/07, Alfio Puglisi alfio.puglisi@gmail.com wrote:
It's a very common construct in Italian. See for example the first sentence of this article:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amore
Apostrophes can be used to truncate articles and some other compound words:
On the Wikitext list I proposed a simple change which would make parsing easier, and make this construct always work, irrespective of how many times it's used per paragraph:
Word'''word -> always Word'<i>word (or </i>...) Word''''word -> always Word'<b>word (or </b>...)
Would this not be better than the current rule, which only allows that construct if the total number of bolds and italics is otherwise unbalanced? That is, at present, it doesn't work in these cases:
L''''amore''' e blah blah l''''informazione'''... L''''amore''' e .... blah '' blah...
I'm not immediately sure how one would represent word<b>word</b> with this rule. Perhaps using actual <b> tags, I guess. Or perhaps this would work: word<nowiki></nowiki>'''word'''. Hmm. Either way, it must be less common than the Italian/French apostrophe situation?
Steve