[Wikitext-l] Determining the behaviour of apostrophes

[Jared Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikitext-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org 
> [mailto:wikitext-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Bennett
> Sent: 27 November 2007 15:05
> To: Wikitext-l
> Subject: Re: [Wikitext-l] Determining the behaviour of apostrophes
> 
> On 11/28/07, Jared Williams <jared.williams1 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > The code is still missing the searching for an single-letter 
> > preceeding a bold to split at. Seems none of the tests 
> exercise that 
> > particular bit of code.
> 
> That's a relief. Now that I understand this rule, I think 
> it's a complete load of bollocks, and should be removed from 
> any notion of "correct" treatement of wikitext. Mismatched 
> apostrophe groupings should be considered erroneous input 
> whose rendering is undefined.

Yeah. It does seem a lot more trouble that its worth.

For instance introducing an escape character, (say \ for example) that
guarentees the following character is text.

* L\'''amour'' is great the first time. But l\'''amour'' fails the second
time.

Jared