[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2014/04/11 at 16:29 -0400] >Here's a fix for the right single quote being used in the word "o'clock".
I wouldn't like to do it that way. The fact is that there are other apostrophes as well, e.g. the full width apostrophe. The solution needs to be more general. The problem is actually far worse than a few versions of the apostrophe. For example, the entire alphabet is duplicated for various fonts, e.g. full width, mathematical bold, mathematical italic, mathematical bold italic, mathematical script, mathematical bold script, mathematical fraktur, mathematical double-struck, mathematical bold fraktur, mathematical sans-serif, mathematical sans-serif bold, mathematical sans-serif italic, mathematical sans-serif bold italic, and mathematical mono-space. To do it right, we should support all contractions regardless of which flavour of any given letter is used. Explicitly respecifying our entire list of contraction rules for each possible combination wouldn't be good. I'll think about what we can do in order to efficiently resolve this problem in a general way. >The problems with these quote signs are myriad. Here's a chapter title. Turn >off grade 2: > >,,julia',s ,,plot ,,6,,br1k ,,fanny',s ,,5gage;t > >Note the extra capital signs. This is also a defficiency in the way that blocks of capitals have been implemented. Before I tackle that one, though, I do have a question. Is "to the" capitalized the right way, above, or, since the two words are joined together, should there be just one ,, sign? >BTW, I asked a sighted friend about the right single quote. She has a >certain amount of proofreading experience, having worked for TV Guide >for awhile. According to her, the right single quote and apostrophe >are virtually indistinguishable. Whether all sighted people would >agree I don't know. For what it may or may not be worth... All evidence is worth considering. In the end, the issue is: Should we rigorously follow the rules that are expected of a good Unicode processor or should we break the rules in order to accommodate understandable but incorrect things that careless people do? The reality, in this particular case, is that we're dealing with a bug in the text by someone who (probably) tried to be too clever. In any event, as stated above, I'll try to figure out a good way to handle the fact that multiple characters can mean the same thing. I also have no problem with treating a mis-placed closing single quote (beginning or middle of a word) as an apostrophe. This leaves us with what to do with a right single quote at the end of a word. Since that's the correct place for that character to appear, my preference would be to not allow it to be treated as an apostrophe. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.com/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
