On 8/17/06, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Use backquotes instead? eg. d``a, d``o, in which `` gets treated as a magic word (like RFC or ISBN) which is automagically, and transparently, converted to d""a and d""o within the parser at an early stage during page rendering?
If you're doing that, then why not just make d''a a magic word?
Kludgy, yes, but backquote is a standard ASCII character, and at least on my keyboard, is easily accessible.
Yes, I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to click a menu every time they want to insert an apostrophe...
Steve