Andrew C. West wrote: > 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.
Even my proposal fails in these cases. But John's heuristic fails in much more common cases. > 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 ? My guess: nobody will use that new character. _ Marco
