On Tue, 20 August 2002, John Cowan wrote:
> How about this heuristic: > > Break after an apostrophe that is the second or third letter in the > word. Do not break after apostrophes that come later. This neatly > handles (I think) all the English, Italian, and Esperanto cases, and > a good many of the French ones. > Does not work with K'ang-hsi or Ch'ien-lung, or apostrophes used in IPA and other systems of phonetic transcription. Seems to me that one apostrophe is not enough - how about a NON-BREAKING APOSTROPHE for cases like K'ang-hsi or Ch'ien-lung, and by default the ordinary apostrophe is always breaking ? Andrew
