This is the traditional use of the apostrophe to be used to marc an elision at end of words. Nothing new.
2017-01-04 6:36 GMT+01:00 John W Kennedy <[email protected]>: > > > On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:20 PM, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 1/3/2017 4:24 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:31:42 +0100, Christoph Päper wrote: > >> > >>>> Among the possibilities, you include Unicode subscripts. > >>> Just for the sake of completeness. > >> This tends to conclude that preformatted subscripts are really an > option here. > > > > Not so. You yourself quote this statement: > > > > | Superscript modifier letters are intended for cases where the letters > carry > > | a specific meaning, as in phonetic transcription systems, and are not > > | a substitute for generic styling mechanisms for superscripting of text, > > | as for footnotes, mathematical and chemical expressions, and the like. > > > > It is clear that the uses that you advocate go against this intent. > > > > Therefore, your conclusion that this is "an option" is nothing more than > a very personal > > opinion on your part (and one that many people here would consider > misguided if > > presented as general recommendation). > > > > A./ > > As long as this is being discussed, what about the historic practice of > using M‘ (nowadays often seen as M’ instead) in Scottish names—e.g., > M‘Donald—as a typographic substitute for M(superscript c)? > > -- > John W Kennedy > Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of > incompetence and criminality. > > > > >
