On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:11:31 +1000, Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Bill Clark wrote:
I just encountered an interesting problem. The article on Michael Moore mentions Front Row Entertainment, Fahrenheit 9/11's UAE distributor.
How do I italicize "Fahrenheit 9/11" without italicizing the "s" in the possessive (since that's not properly part of the title)?
''Fahrenheit 9/11''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s
Yeah, it's ugly, but there's no way to cleanly work around it with the '' and ''' syntaxes short of special-casing /\S'''s/ and similar.
A similar problem is often encountered on fr, where they want to write l'foo where foo is the title of the article and hence should be bold, without bolding the apostrophe. One solution is to use HTML-style tags, i.e. l'<b>foo</b>
tlh: also has this, e.g. when adding the suffix 'e' to the name of the article in bold.
I usually write '''article''''e', which is ugly but works.
(It gets interesting when the name of the article also ends in ', e.g. when saying something like "A '''musician''' is someone who plays a musical instrument", it becomes "jan chu'bogh vay' ghaH chu'wI''e'", with "chu'wI'" being bold - so it needs to become something like '''chu'wI'''''e' or <b>chu'wI'</b>'e'.)
Cheers, Philip