[Wikitext-l] Determining the behaviour of apostrophes
Jared Williams
jared.williams1 at ntlworld.com
Tue Nov 27 15:44:53 UTC 2007
> -----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
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