On 18/11/2007, Andrew Dunbar hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking about whether a new parser could handle all apostrophe issues at once, including converting '' to italic, ''' to bold, and ' to the correct curved apostrophe, opening or closing or closing single quote mark, and possibly even handle the case of Napolitan.
Machine-generated smart quotes are frequently problematic (I've yet to see a quote smartener that correctly handles 'cos in text), so I'd be reluctant to suggest putting that in place; but rendering the French apostrophe should be feasible, if that's actually typographically more correct in a sea of straight single quote apostrophes.
- d.