On 11/28/07, Alfio Puglisi <alfio.puglisi(a)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