On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:11:31 +1000, Tim Starling
<ts4294967296(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Bill Clark wrote:
I just encountered an interesting problem. The
article on Michael
Moore mentions Front Row Entertainment, Fahrenheit 9/11's UAE
distributor.
How do I italicize "Fahrenheit 9/11" without italicizing the "s" in
the possessive (since that's not properly part of the title)?
''Fahrenheit 9/11''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s
Yeah, it's ugly, but there's no way to cleanly work around it with the
'' and ''' syntaxes short of special-casing /\S'''s/ and
similar.
A similar problem is often encountered on fr, where they want to write
l'foo where foo is the title of the article and hence should be bold,
without bolding the apostrophe. One solution is to use HTML-style tags,
i.e. l'<b>foo</b>
tlh: also has this, e.g. when adding the suffix 'e' to the name of the
article in bold.
I usually write '''article''''e', which is ugly but
works.
(It gets interesting when the name of the article also ends in ', e.g.
when saying something like "A '''musician''' is someone who
plays a
musical instrument", it becomes "jan chu'bogh vay' ghaH
chu'wI''e'",
with "chu'wI'" being bold - so it needs to become something like
'''chu'wI'''''e' or
<b>chu'wI'</b>'e'.)
Cheers,
Philip