[BRLTTY] en-us-g2.ctb and single quotes.
Lee Maschmeyer
lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu
Mon Dec 18 09:02:53 EST 2006
I doubt that an on-the-fly translator can do anything reliable with single
quotes, so I mildly prefer leaving apostrophes as apostrophes.
I assume that you don't format whole paragraphs so look ahead schemes are
out of the question. In other words, if an apostrophe follows a punctuation
mark it's almost sure to be a closing single quote. If a paragraph has one
of these, it probably has an opening single quote earlier, so at a guess you
could target the first apostrophe as the start of the quoted passage. But
I'm almost positive that's beyond the scope of an on-the-fly translator and
it's probably not all that reliable anyway.
--
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>
"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
--Fred Allen
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