Arsa Doug Ewell: >John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> 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. > >I' >m not sure this would work. > >-Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California
And I' m sure John Cowan's above 'heuristic' wouldn' t work, either in a 'Celtic' environment or in common 'Celtic-contaminated' (non-elided) English (where one must NOT break where two capital letters are separated by an apostrophe). [To address Marco]: I think a sentence of cimaUTR29_4.html Rationale needs to be changed, so as to accommodate the 'ornamental' use of an intrusive apostrophe to anglicize Irish surnames, where 'The apostrophe is [NOT] part of the word that precedes it, and an implicit word break comes [NOT] after it.' O'Donnell Abú! mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
