On 6/19/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
I was thinking about possible changes to the MediaWiki parsing engine to accommodate this better (like changing the reinterpretation of '''' from bold+' to ''), but I don't think many of them are good. The main confusion with suggestions like yours is being able to easily talk about the category etc in question:
Heh, just yesterday I was going to write that '''' would almost never be used to mean "apostrophe followed by bold". Today, I used it at French Wikipedia in the first sentence of an article:
L''''oeuf mimosa'''...
Nothing better than discovering one's own shortsightedness so soon!
Steve